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Its Resources, Traffic, Towns and People 



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PUBLISHED BY J. S. REIL 



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MRS. POTTER PALMER. 

OF CHICAGO. 

WHO WAS BORN AKD 8PIICT H1K IAK!V [in III Hl'Tt «K OOOWTT 
MAH WOODBURT IT.. 05 OHIIS RIVIR 



— THE — 



GREEN RIVER COUNTRY 



FROM 



BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE, 



ITS TRAFFIC, ITS RESOURCES, ITS TOWNS 



IND 



ITS PEOPLE. 



EMBRACING A HISTORY OF THE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE GREEN AND 
BARREN RIVERS. AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE MINERALS 
AND COAL MEASURES OF THE COUNTIES BOR- 
DERING ON THESE STREAMS. 



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PREFACE. 




INCE the acquisition of the improvements on the Green River system of 
water-ways by the General Government in 1888, and the opening of the 
system to free navigation, a marked increase of development has occurred 
throughout the region affected. This development is still in progress and is 
being accelerated as the resources and capabilities of this section of Kentucky become 
known and appreciated. 

The design of this work is to call attention to this development in some of its most 
impressive phases and to point out in a general way the very substantial basis of natural 
resources on which it rests. In pursuance of this design, the effort has been to bring into 
prominent view these resources and to describe somewhat in detail the industrial, the social 
and the commercial aspects of the country. Descriptions of the principal cities and towns, 
of the educational institutions, of the manufacturing and mining industries, and biograph- 
ical sketches of leading citizens and public men, together with illustrations representing 
views on the rivers, of public and private buildings, manufacturing and mining plants, and 
prominent individuals, are features of the work adopted to this end. A minute digest of 
the subjects treated is not attempted, but it is the expectation of the author that enough 
information may be gleaned from these pages to excite inquiry in regard to the resources 
of the Green River country. 

The scope of the work embraces only the counties lying immediately on the navigable 
streams, and which to a greater or less extent, are interested in their navigation. These 
counties are Warren, Butler, Edmonson, Ohio, Muhlenburgh, McLean, Webster, Daviess 
and Henderson. Some of these counties are almost wholly dependent on the rivers for the 
means of transportation, while all of them, including others not considered, are benefitted 
by their relation to this highway of commerce. 

In the hope that his effort will prove of some utility in bringing into notice and stim- 
ulating the further development of the resources of this portion of his native land, the 
author dedicates this work to the people of the Green River country. 



THOU BOUNTEOUS RIVER GREEN. 



Br W P GREENE 



TJp where the rocky masses, 

Their rugged summits rear, 
Beside the lonely passes 
And sunless chasms near, 

T'hy rills are softly creeping 
Among the cedar shades. 
Or lying idly sleeping 
In silent grassy glades. 

y^wake, and downward leaping, 
O'er steep-descending ways, 
To where the sun-light, peeping, 
On rock borne lichen plays. 

(gliding now through arbors green, 
O'er pebbled pavement, gray, 
With slower, statelier mien, 
Thy current takes its way. 

T'hy strength and volume swelling. 
Now through the forest hoar, 
Thy murmurs sweetly telling 
Of bounties in thy store. 

Qn where theifields are smiling, 
'Neath golden summer sky. 
Thy hastening steps beguiling, 
To stay where sun-beams lie. 

Qn where thy tide, increasing, 
To human hands is lent, 
Its volume still unceasing, 
Its power still unspent. 

T*hrough limestone ledges grinding, 
Past sky-perched groves of green, 
Oer spacious caverns winding, 
Where wondrous things are seen. 



f>Jow, thy waters waxing deep, 
The walls of cities lave; 
Lordly homes thy margins keep. 
And commerce seeks thy wave. 

^till on past furnace, glaring, 
O'er hidden beds of ore, 
Where axe and pick are sharing 
The wealth of Nature's store. 

fsjow, on thy bosom, surging, 
Deep-laden crafts are seen. 
The needs of commerce, ureing, 
Thy busy ports between. 

Qn past the teeming meadows 
And spreading fields of corn, 
Beneath the deepening shadows, 
Past villas newly born. 

"fhine emerald waves now minele 
With larger, grosser tides. 
But still thy spirit lingers 
Where e'r thy name abides. 

Qh, child of the mountain height! 
Rill of the cedar dell! 
Well hast thou proved thy might, 
Thy race has ended well. 

Confederate with the seas, 

On mission yet more grand. 
Thou art lifting to the breeze 
The sails of every land. 

jyjer^ed in the common Main, 

And lost thy pleasing sheen. 
Still glad thousands voice thy fame, 
Thou Bounteous River Green. 



GREEN RIVER. 



Til]-", topographical lormation of eastern and middle Kentucky is such that the dip of 
the country from the mountain ranges on the east and south of the state is towards 
the Ohio River. The rivers therefore that furnish drainage to the entire section arc a part 
of the Ohio system of waters. One of the principal channels of drainage for middle 
Kentucky is Green River, so named from the color of its water, which unless dis- 




VIEW ON GREEN RIVER TWO MILES ABOVE CALHOUN 

colored by earthy washings from its shores by heavy rains, is as green as the foliage upon 
its banks in summer. 

Green River and its tributary waters drain about twenty-five counties of the state. 
It has its origin in Lincoln county and touches or flows entirely or partially through 
Casey, Adair, Taylor, Green, Hart, Edmonson, Butler, Ohio, Muhlenburgh, Hopkins, 
Webster, McLean, Daviess and Henderson counties. Big Barren River, which is the 
principal tributary of the Green, rises in Monroe county, passes through Allen, Barren and 
Warren counties, and joins Green River at the northwest extremity of the latter 
county about thirty miles I. clow the city of Bowling Green, and one hundred and sixty 
miles from its mouth. Barren River in its passage through Warren county receives the 
tributary waters of Drakes Creek and the Caspar River, both t sidcral.lc stream-, having 



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! Ill GREEN RIVEB ' "I M l;> 




CAMPING PARTY BARREN RIVER 



tlnir origin in Simpson and l>"'_ r aii counties. The other principal tributaries of Green 
River are Mud River, Rough River and Pond River. Mud River rises in Logan county, 
passes through Butler and Muhlenburgh counties, and empties into th I :it Rochester, 

cmc hundred and twenty-six miles from it- mouth. Rough River, u< \t to thi Barren, the 

-i affluent "I the Green, rises in Hardin inty, forms the boundary between Brecken- 

ridge and Grayson inties, flows through Ohio count} and empties into the Green at 

Livermore, eighty-eight miles above its mouth. Pond River rises in Todd county, flows 
through Hopkins, Muhlenburgh and McLean counties and enters the Green at Ashbys- 
burgh, seventy miles from it- mouth. Besides these there are numerous creeks and springs 
thai contribute their waters t" the main channel ><\ drainage until their united volume 

Btitute a fluvial highway sufficient t" float an immense ami i 

This system of waters is of the most interesting on the American continent. All 

along these rivers and creeks are vast tracts of timber lands of the verj choicest of all 

kinds of bardw I timber. Coal and iron ore abound. The acenerj along the banks 

of the streams will vie 
with that ol the Rhiue or 
I [udson,and i~ like \ r iews 
of the kaleidoscope, ever- 
changing, ■ • \ i r 11 e w . 
• rrand and pei |" ndicular 
cliffs and solid lime or 
sandstone ledgi s, rising 
hundreds of feet, meet 
the view, while from 
these cliffij the land ex- 
tends in rolling table- 
lands, dotted « ith farms 
,.i covi red w iili majestic 
fori Bts, nr it may !><• I>"t- 
t"in lands, surpassing in 

REMOVING OBSTRUCTIONS IN ROUGH RIVER fertility the N ill- o-lllit r\ 




PROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 1 I 

The Green and Barren rivers have been used since the first settlement of the country 
in the transportation of flatboats and for the transportation of timber and lumber rafts to 
the mills and markets of Evansville. In the early days of flatboat navigation, perilous 
and tedious as it was, the hardy pioneers of the Green River country did not hesitate to til 
out their frail crafts for a voyage that would occupy months. These rude lioxes loaded 
with staves, hoop-poles, lumber, lime, or produce were floated to the Ohio, thence on the 
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, or the plantations on the lower rivers and 
bayous. Prior to the improvement of the rivers by the construction of locks and dams, 
this method of transportation was exceedingly perilous on account of timber obstructions 
and shoal water, and was seldom attempted except in the winter and spring when the 
rivers were high. After the improvement of the rivers, however, the navigation for 
flatboats was more secure and much of the produce of the country found its way to 
southern plantations by this means. But with the advent of steam navigation and railroads 





VIEW ON GREEN RIVER. NEAR ROCHESTER. 

this method of transportation fell into disuse, and now except an occasional lime boat, no 
flat boat of the old box pattern is seen on Green River. 

In general the soil in the Green River valley may be designated as either calcarious 
or alluvial. On the upper waters of both the Green and Barren rivers, except in the low 
valleys and bottom lands, the soil partakes largely of the lime ingredient imparted by the 
limestone on which it rests. The subsoil here is of red clay, while the surface soil is a 
sandy loam, peculiarly adapted to the growth of wheat and tobacco. The character of the 
soil along the rivers gradually changes as they near their junction. Masses of hills and 
ridges seem to have collected to witness the meeting of the waters, and the lime and sand- 
stone formations appear to struggle for the mastery. But finally the limestone sinks away 
and leaves the field to the domination of his yellow brother, occasionally peeping up by 
\\a\ of showing that he has not entirely given up the struggle, but will later on assert his 



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mastery in another part of the field. The two rivers unite their waters on the southern 
border "t Butler county, and at the northwest corner "t Warren a nnty, thirty miles below 
Bowling Green, and one hundred and seventy miles above Evansvillc. 

Prom 1 1 > i — point on through it- entire course Gre< n River flows through and upon the 
coal fields "t i li<- Western coal district oi Kentucky. The -"il in the valleys and bottom 
lands assumes the characteristics "t :i Bandy or clayej loam, very rich and fertile, while the 

ridges and table-lands carrj a soil < posed of sand and white clay, thin and somewhat 

liable i" wash ii not properly bandied, but exceeding!} well fitted for grazing ami fruit 
grow ing. 

Lock No. 1 is located a fe« hundred yards below the junction "I the rivers, 
securing navigable waters on either river tor twenty miles above. As the river flows on 
toward the < >iiii> the bottoms widen and the hills and ridges gradually reced< from the 
shore and lose their boldness. The hollowa between the ridges open up into considerable 
vallevs, and the general face "I the countn undergoes a change from that "I extreme 
ruggedness t" comparative uniformity of surface. I'lii- aspect "I the country becomes 

re pronounced as the river advances in it- course until wide stretches "I undulating 

table-lands or second l><>tt begin i" appear in Butler, Muhlenburgh, Ohio and Webster 

counties. A- the river -inU- deeper into 1 1 » » - alluvial deposits of the section in its passage 
to the Ohio, this character of land becomes more and more the prevailing feature oi the 

countrj until in McLean, Daviess and Senders unties the second 1 >• >t (• >m lands ol Green 

R i v .• r blend with the 

sec I bottom lands of the 

Ohio River. 

Buch in brief is a de- 
scription of the water 
courst - « lii'-h form the 
navigable water waj 
the Green River system 
« Inch are now bj cession 
and purchase the prop rrj 
of the I nitiil States I 
ernment. Ii will be gath- 
ered from ilii- description 
that the natural featun - oi 
the region traversi 'I bj 
the stn am- are greatly di- 
versified. The average ele- 
vation above sea level "I 
the Btreams in their upper 
tiroes, is about sis hun- 
dred feet, while at the i th of Green River the elevation is about five hundred, showing 

thai the river from the head of na\ igation t" it- final debouohure into the < )hio has aocom- 
plished a descent of about one hundred I 




THOMAS LANDING ON BARREN RIVER 



l'l;o\l BOWLING (iREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



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HISTORY OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE RIVERS. 

BY HON. C. II MCELROY. OP BOWLING OREEN 

F^ARLY in the history of Kentucky the navigation of Green River and its improve- 
j^ ment, and the improvement of its chief tributaries engaged the attention not only of 
the people who lived near the waters of these streams, hut of the state at large. The fact 
that Green River and its affluent streams drain a vast area of land rich in mineral, abound- 




LOCK AND DAM No 5 ON GREEN RIVER. UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT GLENMORE. 

ing in timber, and also a splendid agricultural country, was known and appreciated at a 
time when the white man and the Indian were still rival claimants for the dominion of the state. 

The splendid system of locks and dams, reaching from the mouth of Green River to 
Bowling Green, on Barren, whereby navigation is practical all the year for nearly two 

hundred miles, had a very humble origin, and the ] pie who now enjoy the fruits of the 

enterprise of Kentucky in building these locks, and the effect of subsequent Governmental 
ownership and control, have forgotten, very generally, the early struggles of the pioneer 
fathers in their efforts to secure the navigation of this stream. 

In 1808 the legislature of Kentucky passed an act hiving upon the counties contiguous 



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I III OREI \ RIVER 'i)i \ i BY 




to the wal • Green River, the responsibility of clearing the stream and keeping it in 
navigable condition. This act \\:i- analogous t" the old system of working the county 
roads. It required the appointment "of 'oversee rs, and required them t" "warn in the hands" 

in July, Anmi-t ami 

8« pu nil" r, :in>l "work 
it" l>\ removing all li-li- 
pots, all dams nol author- 
ized by law, :ill l'"_ r -. ami 
to cut and clear awaj 
all projecting timber, i" 
Bhrub all points ol inlands 
ami remove any obstruc- 
tions Irom tin' channel. 
"Hands" were exoner- 
ated by tin- paymenl "t 
seventy-five cents per 
day. 

By act -t 1810 Mml 
River, from it* mouth to 
Wolf Lick fork, was re- 
quired tn In- opened and 

RBBUILDING LOCK AT RUMSBY U . - , ,t ill I. jKlil l.v mitlay 

of t\N" thousand dollars, to !»■ raised by subscription and work nf "hands." 

Barren River, from it* mouth to Bays l< > rk . was required to l»' improved on the same 
plan. Likewise Rough Creek ami Drakes Creek. 

In 1 *•".'_'-•". the question of internal improvements was widely discussed, and became 
the all-absorbing local question before the people of the state. 

\- earlj as 1833 the state expended five hundred and twenty-six dollars in making 
preliminary surveys ol Green River. < >n July 1st, 1834, lock and dam No. 2 was lei ti'i" 

< struction. October 7th, 1834, No. 1 was let. No.3 and No. 1 were lei in 1836, and No. 

1 in Barren River was lei in June, 1836. 

In January, 1835, the Board ••! Green River Commissioners reported to the legislature 

thai tl -t of constructing the Imir locks on Green River and the one on Barren River 

would be about $230,988. How far the board missed the mark was si en when the cos! fin- 
ally footed up $859,126.79. The year 18 12 saw the Goal completion of all the five locks, and 
all the year round navigation between Bowling Green and the Ohio River was an accom- 
plished t'ari. To the inaugurati I tlii- splendid work and to it- final consummation, much 

credil is due a number of men, l>m to no one perhaps is more credit due than t" James 
Rumsej skill-, who was on< of the most progressive, liberal and broadminded nun the 
state ever produced. Whilst the system of Black water navigation baa always been, now is, 
and in all the future will be of inestimable benefit to the people ot the Green River country, 
still it was never a source of revenue t.i the state. 

Between the years 1843 and 1865, the gross expenditures on the Hi f navigation were 

313 66 and the gross receipts, $265,002.59, thus showing a net loss during this period 
,. i 1,81 L.07. 



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During the war the locks were injured more or less, and shortly after its close the 
legislature was confronted with the question of what should be done with this property 
which had cost the state nearly $900,000, which had fallen into bad repair, and which was 
not self-sustaining. 

The legislature solved the problem, whether wisely or unwisely, has always been a 
vexed question, by leasing the improvements for a period of thirty years to a private corpo- 
ration, known as the Green and Barren River Navigation Company. Under the contract 
between the state and the company it was stipulated that the company should have the con- 
trol of the locks during the term of the lease, that it might collect the tolls for passing the 
locks, which the state was entitled to collect, and that the company should keep the works 
in repair at its own expense and return them at the expiration of the term in the same 
condition as when received, and the company was required to give bond and surety in the 
sum of $500,000, that it would comply with its contract. The company took charge about 
1868. The profit to it from tolls was no greater than it had been theretofore to the state, 
and the amount thus realized was not sufficient to keep the works in repair, but the company 
ran boats of its own, and being compelled to pay no tolls, boats owned by persons other than 
the company were at a great disadvantage, the result of which was that the company had 
practically a monopoly of the freight and passenger business of the rivers, between Bowling 
Green and the Ohio. In 1878 the question of ceding Green and Barren Rivers anil also 
Kentucky River which had also been leased to a private corporation, began to be agitated, 
and a few years thereafter the legislature ceded both rivers to the general government sub- 
ject to the lease. 

In 1888 the government bought from the Green and Barren River Navigation Com- 
pany its unexpired lease, and paid therefor the sum of $135,000, and thus the Green and 
Barren Rivers and their navigable tributaries passed from the control of Kentucky into the 
possession of the Federal Government. 




BROWNS LOCK, LOCK No 1. ON BARREN RIVER. 
THE ABERDEEN COAL AND MINING COMPANY S STEAMER JNO. T. CARSON AND BARGES COMING OUT OP LOCK. 



H. Till ORRf N Kl\ IK OOI N I KV 

[m mediately upon acquiring the ownership and possession <>i the locks and dams on 
and Barren Rivers, the government began the «»rk <.t patting them in thoroagh 
repair, and appropriated t" rebuild the locks which could not be repaired, $170,000, and 
in addition there was expended from allotments $616,815.41. Besides this, $95,000 have 
been appropriated toward the building "f ;i new lock and dam on Green River, above the 
mouth of Barren, and when this lock Bhall have been finished, it will open navigation as 
tar a- Brownsville, the count) Beal "t Edmonson county. 

The commercial importance "i Green and Barren Rivera will !»• readily Been by an 
inspection of the statistics kepi bj the governmenl since it t<»ik charge of them in Decem- 
ber, 1888. The i ml;, in 1890 was 907,1 16, a large pari of which was timber, logs, 

The increase in articles other than timber besl illustrates the growing increase in trade. In 




GOVERNMENT BUILDING KKBPERS RESIDENCES) AT LOCK No 1. BARREN RIVBR 

AHKKDKIN COAI. AND MININU COMPANY 8 8TIAUIR J. T CARSON. IN LOCK 

773 tons ..I flour were transported; in 1896, 1,642 tons. In 1890, 1,431 tons oi 
grain; in 1896, 3,074 tons. In 1890, 182 tons ol lives k; in U >70tons. In 1890, 

: tons of merchandise : in 1896. 18,701 tons. 

Plying these rivers, the whole distance and pari ..t the distance, are i l< ven pass, 
steamers, fifteen ton boats and Beven tug boats, varying in capacity from I I tons for the 
smallest tug boat, up to 199.99 for the largest steamer 

The activity "l these crafts is shown by the following itemised account "I total num- 

: lockages, taken from the report ..I the governmenl officials in oharge <>f the rivers, 
for the year ending June 30, I - 

Lock No. 1, Green River, 1,067; No. 2, 2,206; No. 3,2,108; No..4, 2,263. Look No. 
I. Barn d River, 1,261. 

The work of constructing the new lock on the upper Green River i- being pressed with 



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vigor, and when finished will open up to successful development the hidden and hitherto 
inaccessible treasures of iron and coal which abound in Edmonson county everywhere. 

The Green and Barren River Navigation Company, mentioned above, was composed 
dt some of the most substantial and enterprising men in the Green River country. 

The organizers of the corporation and the owners of its stock for many years were ( 'apt. 
W. S. Yanineter, Capt. C. J. Vanmeter, Judge W. H. Payne, Captains John A. Robinson and 
E. B. Seeley, Messrs. (_'.( i. Smallliouse, William Brown, J. V. Sproule and Dr. S. NT. Coombs, 
who bought out the interest of H. C. Murrell, of Louisville, Kentucky. Under the man- 
agement of these gentlemen the company did a large and very profitable business, making 
handsome profits above the necessary expenditures in keeping the locks and dams in repair. 

In consequence of the fact that the company had no tolls to pay for its own steamboats 
and water craft, boats owned by others than the company could not compete with it, and 
this resulted in giving it the navigation of Green and Barren Rivers practically free from 




STEAMER GAYOSO OP E.. & G R TRANSPORTATION CO . AND LOOK AND DAM AT WOODBURY. 

competition. This fact created animosity, and though the company maintained a good 
line of boats, and the freight charges were, for the most part, reasonable, many efforts 
were made to get rid of the contract which the state made with the company. 

The legislature passed an act to repeal the charter and sought to abrogate the contract, 
but the courts, including the court of appeals, all held that the contract was binding upon 
the state and she could not annul it. 

The company therefore remained in full possession until the United States Govern- 
ment bought its unexpired lease as stated before. All the members of I lie company have 
passed away except Capt C. -I. Vanmeter. Capt. C. (J. Smallliouse and Capt. E. B. Seeley. 

The corporation had a prosperous, though rather stormy existence, and before the 
government purchased its lease it became the subject of somewhat violent political contro- 
versy. But it held its own to the last, and did much to develop the commercial resources 
of the country drained by the two splendid rivers from which it took its name. 






IHl GREEN l:lVl R COUN1 l:V 



LOCATION OF LOCKS AND DAMS ON GREEN, BARREN AND ROUGH RIVERS AND 

TABLE OF DISTANCES ON SAME. 

Look and dam No. 1 on Green River i- 
located al Spotteville,' twenty miles above 



Evaosville, and ten miles above the month 

of the river. The distal from Spotteville 

to next landing above and between landings 
thereafter is ji\ en in table below : 



I ,, Blufl City 

■■ Maaoni Landing 
" Cummini 
Birk City 
Hamilton! Ferrj 

urdaville 
l topii 
Delaware 

- 



. 4 Miles 

.: 

I 

I » 

:: 

4 

8 

5 

l 

:, " 



This is the landing i"i Si bree City, i \m> 

and a hall miles inland. 

I a Steamporl . 1 MUe 

Pattei «on< .'■ Mitea 

■ l I Mile 
•• WrighUburgh . . 1 Mile 

This i- the landing for Beech Grove, 
three miles inland. 

I I 1 Mile 

.... 3 ' 

■ Mouth of Pond Rlvei ... 1 Mile 
Runuej 1 Mile* 

This is the location "I look and dam N 

_', making the distance between looks N 

1 ami 2, - i \ t \ miles, which is the greatest 

distance between any "I the locks on the 

ii\ er. 



'1 

1 Ivermore 
■• Stanley! Mine 
" Poinl Pleaianl 

Humpl 

Snaalil . . 




Miles 
- 
. 1 
2 Miles 
■• 
•■ 
4 






8 






.. 


" \ir.ln-. Gen'l Buell'i 


home 


6 " 
1 Mile 















This is the location of lock and dam N 
8, and the distance between t li i~ lurk and 
lock No. - is fort} -six miles. 



To Mi.ii.i_ 

i 

\ ..-'in 

■• Prei • 

i' unwell 
" 1 1 1 > .t 1 1 - 



10 Miles 

1 Mile 

4 '■ 
1 Mile 



To Wilson 4 Mi| C s 

i\en le . 3 •• 

Aberdeen .... 4 *■ 

M _;antown .... t " 

1 Mile 

S I Mile* 

■• Woodbur) •-' 

This is the location of lock ;ni<l dam N( 
I. forty-four miles above lock and dam 
Ni 3. One mile above this | >• >i ■ ■ t Barren 
River enters ' Sreen River. 

The in \t landing above \V Ibun on 

Barren River is : 



ro C irk« 

Mouth "i i laapai Rivet 
" Tone*' Hole 

1 1 
•• Brown'* locks ... 



6 Miles 
I 

8 " 



1 Mile 

This is the location ol lock and .lam No 
I "ii Barren River, the only lock <>n thai 
river. The distanci betweeu tlii- lock and 
the • below al Woodbury is sixteen miles. 

The next landing <>n Barren River is 
Bowling Green, fourteen miles above. This 
i- tin bead of navigation on Barren River. 

The landings "ii Green River above 

W Ibury arc. Glenmore, twenty-one 

miles, which is the sit.' of lock and dam 
No. 5, under construction. The next land- 
ing abov< Glenmore is Brownsville, nine 
miles, which is the bead ol navigation "ii 
< Ii. . ii Rivt i . 

Surveys and estimates have been made, 
however, for a sixth lock and dam, at a 
point aliniii six miles above Brownsville, 
which, it' constructed will extend Black 
water t" the Mammoth < a\ e, fourth a miles 
tri'in Brownsville, and render the river 
navigable to thai point. The landings on 
Rough River are t li>- locks nine miles aboi i 

Liver >■ and Hartford, twenty miles 

abo\ >• the locks on Rough Ri\ er. 

Thus ii will be seen thai the Green River 
-\ -t. in "I Black water ua\ -. . 
two hundred and Bixtj miles of navigable 
water and affords transportation'facilities i" 
..\ . r t"iir thousand square miles ■■! territorj . 



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GREEN RIVER COAL MEASURES. 



BY CHARLES J. NORWOOD, 

GEOLOGIST AND MINING ENGINEER. AND FOR THIRTEEN YEARS STATE MINE INSPECTOR OF KENTUCKY 




THP] Western coal field of Kentucky, covering 1,500 square miles, is a remarkable 
basin of fossil fuel, less understood abroad and even less appreciated at borne than are 
many other coal areas of much less value. It is remarkable not only for the Dumber of work- 
able eoals thai have 
been laid down with- 
in short vertical dis- 
tances of each other, 
lmt also for the per- 
sistence of the beds in 
area! extent. It is 
doubtful whether, all 
things being consid- 
ered, there is a more 
valuable tield of bitu- 
minous coal, of like 
area, anywhere in 
this country. There 
are fields containing 
patches, more or less 
considerable in size, 
of thicker coals and of 

coals of higher grade; but there is none excelling it, and few, if any, equaling it in the 
wonderful evenness and persistency of the principal seams — with respect as well to quality 
as to thickness. The bete noir of miners in certain of the more highly prized Appa- 
lachian fields — " wants" or sand-bars in the coal seams — is almost unknown in this field; 
so much of an exception, indeed, as to provoke especial comment when encountered. 
Moreover, for ordinary domestic purposes, and for manufactories, one need wish for no 
better fuel than can be furnished by this field, while some of the coals make a coke of proved 
excellence for all purposes, save the iron furnace. 

Within a vertical range of 1,000 to 1,200 feet there are not less than seventeen beds of 
coal, eleven of which are usually workable, and six of the eleven almost invariably so. 
for the purposes of this volume it is unnecessary to present a description of the structure 
of the basin, or to enter upon details relating to the order in which the coal beds occur, f 
but for convenience of reference further along, the following notes concerning the principal 
seams wrought in the Green Rive]' region are given: 

The uppermost coal that has been worked over any extended area, though perhaps not 
the uppermost workable one, is N T o. 12, according to the numbering (from base upward) 

I Reference should be made '■• the reports of the Kentucky Geological Survey, issue l by Dr. D. I» Owen and by Prof. x. s. 
Shalei i be reports ol Prol C. i Norwood, late Chief [nspi i toi ol Hines, etc.. especially i"r the years 1898 and 1895, m ■ 

lilted with profit. The report for 1895 contains the mo sneral account of the coals in this field that b 

been published, each bed being fully described. 



VIEW NEAR PARADISE. LOOKING UP STREAM 



I HE GREEK Ml BB < "i M l:V 

adopted bj Dr. D. D. Owen, or coal A., according to the provisional nomenclature used bj 
\| I .1 Norwood, li i- an excellent coal when well developed, and in the Green River 

\;illi\ i- usual I) thick, frequently reaching seventy-two inches and osionally • - i ^r 1 1 1 % 

inches in thickness. When at it- besl it carries comparatively little sulphur, and makes 

Inn ;i Urate quantity of ash. It is finely developed al Airdrie, in Muhlenburgh county, 

i- ■■! excel lenl quality, and makes a g I '-"kr. 

V. II '(coal B) is "i f the principal sources "t c mercial fuel in the Beld. It i- 

iiuite persistent and is usually thick, reaching as high as eighty- four inches. The upper 

part ••( the bed i- sometimes cannel, but of a rather | 'quality. It is an excellent coking 

coal, ;i considerable proportion of the Earlington coke being made from tlii- bed. 

Mo. 9 (coal l*i i- a remarkable coal bed, wonderfully uniform in nil respects ; regular 
in bedding, extraordinarily persistent, •-■■ii— t:ii»i in thickness, aud varying but little in 
quality through long distances. It carries more sulphur and makes more :i-li than the besl 

Pittsburgh, for example, but it is a sti g coal, makes great heat and is a very desirable 

fuel. Probably 75 per cent "I the commercial product <•! the field is derived fr thi- 

seam. It is rarely less than fifty-eix inches thick, and nol infrequent!) reaches Bixty-six 
inchea. It makes an excellent domestic :m<l manufacturing coke, and a large t"im:<_ 
annually turned int" coke in Hopkins and I ni tounties. 

The purest coal found in the field i- No. 1 B(coal L). It is "in- -•! the very best fuels 
known in the market-, and on the upper Green River is nl exceptional excellence. 

1 n it- lower course the Green River splits the Western coal field about in twain, while 
it- upper waters wasli the Southwestern border of the basin. Having its shores in the 

counties ol Butler, Daviess, Ed uson, Henderson, McLean, Muhlenburgh, Ohio and 

Webster, also touching Hopkins, all of them richly Btored witb excellent coals, the river 
should have a great coalcarryiog trade. It has long seemed Btrange to the writer that the 
opportunities offered by Green River for shipments to Southern ports have nol been 
grasped I »\ foresighted nun now engaged in the Ohio River trade. Along its banl 
within easy reach by tram — and by tram- no longer than are used to carr) coal to the 

■•main line" at main railroad mines, al which n<> better, and in some instance - nol bo p I, 

beds are wrought. There is a great acreage ol coal that niaj I"- readily shipped in i pe- 
tition with upper Ohio River mines; may be shipped, reover, practically the year round, 

and at times when low water "r ice bars the waj from those mines t" lower Ohio and 
\| ssissippi l;i\ • r ports. 

There are few better coals for general purposes than the " Main Nolin" or " lar Lick" 

\ I, B) of Edmonson county. It ran-.- from twenty-four !•■ lorty inches in thickness 

ami i- easil) mined. Official analyses of representative outcrops Bhow 1.05 t" 2.54 per 

cent "i' -nl |>lnir (small ei gh) and much of the sulphur obtained in the analyses was 

derived from pyritic layers that maj be eliminated in mining. The coal runs well in car- 
bon and would probablj produce a l."""I ooke. Shipments may I" made down Bear Creek 
to I in, n l!i\ er. 

In Butler Couut) the equivalent of the "Main Nolin" is fbnnd mar 1 1 * . - river and is 
there known as the " M- rd< en." The superior quality "t the "Aberdeen" i- well known in 

the Green River markets, and it readilj sells upon it- merits in petition with the best 

products ol other fields, rhere is one other workable <"al in Butler, within ich ol 

the river, possibh w\<> other beds, but the " Aberdeen" is, so far us i- yet known, the si 

trn-tu orth\ and tin best . 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 'J I 

To describe th al beds of ( )lii<> and Muhlenburgb e ities would be to describe prac- 
tically all the coals in the Western Held, and the statement could be applied with l>nt little 
modification to the other counties on the lower stretch of the river. The bed commonlv 
worked is No. 9, Nn. 11 following next. Ohio stands second among the counties producing 
coal in the field, and Muhlenburgb third. In both counties the larger percentage of the 
commercial product is mined by machine, and is shipped by rail. Surely the wealth of coal 
contiguous to the river in those counties and the importance of the latter as a means of 
transportation, will ultimately be recognized, and a trade secured that is now closed to rail- 
road mines. McLean county mines less coal, compared with its resources, than any other 
county in the Western Held. It is an inviting region for prospectors ready to utilize the 
river for transportation. Webster is o( less value, perhaps, to a river coal trade than is 
any one of the other counties, the most accessible seams being in the western and south- 
western parts of the county ; but there are also beds near the river that are oi importance. 
In Henderson and Daviess counties the better coals are, as a rule, at a considerable depth 
below the surface. The most important mines near Green River in Henderson are near 
Spottsville. In Daviess there are no mines of importance near the river, but some excellent 
coal may be found in the southwestern part of the county, a comparatively short distance 
away from the si ream. 

To sum up the history of Green River from an economic point of view, it may be said 
that it has Keen a long neglected stream traversing a region of long neglected mineral re- 
sources of great value But this should not be expected to continue much longer. With 
the freedom that has been granted to all traffic through the abolition of tolls, the betterment 
of the older locks ami dams and the construction of additional ones, the river has, so to 
speak, Keen given a "new life," and the development of the coal resources, the limestone 
and sandstone beds, tin' bituminous ("asphalt") rock, ami other mineral deposits can not 
be tar distant. 



MINING COAL BY ELECTRICITY. 



BY JOHN T JACKSON, ROCKPORT. 



IX the ages past, nature in her wisdom stored, in favorite -pots oi this planet, even 
layers of the heat and light of the sun, so when this globe became inhabited the stored 
energy of the thousand year- became available to her civilized and progressive inhabitants. 
The first mode of reclaiming this heat and sunlight was most laborious, and the same pro- 
cess, I Kin strength, pick, drill and shovel is used in thousands of mines to this day. and 

it has only been within the past few years that any other power has been tried to supplant 
this most costly process of mining coal, (hit of the thousands of mines that have attempted 
in use mining machinery only the fewest number have made it a success. Not so much on 
account of the failure of the inventive genius of the man who designed the machines, 

but mi a unt of the sulphur halls in the coal. 

Jevons has truly said: "Coal in truth stands not beside I >ut entirely above all 



I III GR] in RIVER COl si l;Y 




other oommoditii a. hi- tin- 
material energj ofth< country 
— tin universal aid — the fac- 
tor in e\ erj thing \\> do; with 
coal almost any feat i- pos- 
sible or « :i-\ . without it We 
are thrown l>:i<-k into the 
laborious poverty of early 
times." I ^questionably thai 
i- bo, and that being so, any 
bod] of coal that can be 
placed "ii tin market cheaper 
than 98 per a nt •■) on< '- 
competitors i- quite a valu- 
able ■••i:il Geld, anil ju-i such 
;i coal field i- the Shirley 
coal field "l ov< r one thous- 

MITCHELL S LANDING. BARRr :1 ,l,| ; ,<Ti-, belonging U) Ml-. 

E L. Jackson, mar the town of Rockport, < > 1 1 i • > county, Kentucky. The eastern 
main Btem • •( the Illinois Central Railway, for one-half mile, forms the northwestern 
boundary of this property, and the property i- also available to Green River, insuring, for 

ever after, cheap transportation. But the -t important feature of tlii- coal is that ii can 

be mined by electrical mining machinery, the cheapest of all knowu processes. This same 
vein, \". !', in the same liill and adjoining property, is being successfully mined by the 
McHenrj Coal Co., :ii their Echols mines, with electrical machines. They have in use 
-• m n machines, requiring fourteen operators and assistants, and with ilii- number of ma- 
chines and men they are now cutting as much coal in ten hours as one hundred and seventy- 
five expert pick miners can cut in the same length of time. Note the difference in cost of 
production: the cosl of production is not onlj cheapened, but the liability to Btrikes is !■ — 
iiuil, for iii" * ~ t an\ can learn i" operate a machine in a day, and all other mine em- 
ployees are common day laborers, experience required. 

Tin Shirley field Btands pre-( minent on account ol li>\\ cost of production, reduction 
nt liability to strike, accessibility to market, cheapness of transportation, evenness of vein, 
safety of roof, and drainage "I entire field to opening. There is also on this propertj a 
virgin forest "t" hardwood timber. This property is lor Bale or lease; addn -- John T. Jack- 
son, Rockport, Kentucky. 




FKHM l-.ilWI.lNC CUKKN Hi I'.V \NSVII.I,K. 



2:) 



NATURAL RESOURCES OF UPPER GREEN RIVER. 



BY PROF. M. P. CRUMP. FORMER STATE GEOLOGIST 



UNDER this head are embraced (lie counties of Grayson, Edmonson, Warren, 
Butler, Muhlenburgb ami Ohio, all of which arc situated on the eastern border 
of the Western coal field of Kentucky, and will be treated under the following heads, viz.: 
location, transporation, minerals, timber and climate. 

Location — All of these counties are situated midway between the cities of Louisville 
and Nashville, less than seventy-live miles from eitheraud within one hundred and fifty miles 
of the center of population of the United States. They are in the great valley of the Missis- 
sippi which is destined to 
become the most popu- 
lous portion of the habit- 
able globe, owing to its 
rich agricultural lands, 
combined with its inex- 
haustible mineral and 
timber resources. 

Tka nspobtatiojn — 
Its natural outlet is the 
famous < ireen River, re- 
cognized as one of the 
deepest on the continent 
as well as the most navi- 
gable, owing to the fact 
that it rises in the cav- 
ernous limestone of Ken- fishing party at Rochester locks. 

tucky, which embraces some five thousand square miles, and i- ted from the numerous 
underground streams which have in past ages fashioned the innumerable caverns that 
abound throughout its entire extent. It is thus abundantly supplied with water in the dry 

season, and kept tree from ice in winter by means of the warm water < ling directly from 

its cavern springs. The river flows into the Ohio and thence to the Mississippi, and with 
its connections embraces more than twenty-five thousand mile-- of navigable waters, with 
access to more than forty million people, and the most flourishing cities of America. 

MINERALS — Under this head are found coal, iron ore, asphalt, ochre, vitrified clay, 
tire clay, Litchfield marls and building stone of various kinds. 

Coal — Sere is found the lowest workable seam of coal in the Western coal field oi 
Kentucky, familiarly known as the Main Xolin or Coal L. of Shaler's Survey. It is an 
excellent domestic, steam and gas coal, and is found covering an area of many miles in 




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I lit GREEN im BR COl NTR^ 



Grayson, Eklmonson, Warren, Butler and Bluhlenburgh. Ii averages lull thro Feet, and i* 

found in places sbi feet, is very a — i I » I . • . i- usually worked by drifting, and :it :i very Ion 

cost, titi\ cents per ton. Ii was first opened some lorty years a^.., and has be* n constantly 
worked, and bas supplied the town "t Bowling Green with both fuel and lights for years. 
Ii- greatest development is at Aberdeen, near Morgantown, Butler county, from which 
point ;i block two feel square and four feel thick — tin- height of the vein — \\a< taken ami 
shown at the World's Columbiau Exposition, where ii received honorable mention, ami a 

block fr a |»>ini not lar distant re© ived a medal. 

This region i- destined !•> become a great coal center, lying as it does halfway between 
Louisville and Nashville, and on the projected line of the Illinois Central Railroad, which 




CAMP LIFE ON OREBN RIVBR 

will at no distant day connect these two prosperous and growing cities. It i- also the near- 
est first class coal \<< < Chicago ami the great coal less n gion of the frigid Northwi st 

rhe coal is a free burning, bituminous variety, mines easily and yards well. It con- 
tains l>nt little Bulpbur and ash, and oompeti - favorably with either the Pittsburgh or the 
celebrated Jelli al ■■( eastern Kentucky. 

Coal No. 9 is largely worked in Muhlenburgh and <>lii.> i nties, and while not so 

low in ash and sulphur a> the lower coals, has longer been worked, and has an established 
reputatii a in n places. It is usually thicker than the lower ooala, 

[ro> Ores These are found in Eklmonson, Warren, Butler, Muhlenburgh ami < >t ■ i • > 
counties, developed only t" a limited extent, but sufficiently t" indicate to Prof. Shaler, 
of Harvard College, (former state geologist), that one vein alone in Exit son count} con- 
tained enough ore to run lift) furnaces for a century. Ii consist principally of 

limonitea and carbonites, the former abounding and contains ii forty-two to fifty-si i pt r 

cent, with paratively little sulphur and phosphorus, together with a limited ai t "i 

silicia. Situated immediately above the ore bed, coal is found sufficiently free tr--iu im- 
puritirB for smelting purposes; while less than Bftj feet below excellent fluxing limestone 



FROM BOWIJNG CRKKN To KV A NSVI U.K. 



25 



is found, thus placing within gun shof of each other the three necessary ingredients for success- 
fully making iron a1 the lowest cost. I n addition there is a boundless supply oi water tor l>oth 
furnace purposes and transportation. Thus it will he seen that ai no distant day a greal 
iron-making industry must necessarily spring up in this highly favored region. An iron 

master of national lame and great experience both in America and Europe has pronounced 
the region in Edmonson county between Bear Creek and Nolin the ideal place for making 
both low priced iron and basic steel. These ores can he worked in open cut, consequently 
at the lowest cost; and this iron-producing quality has been sufficiently tested in the 
charcoal iron furnace which was operated here in 1X45-6. Numerous pots, kettles and 
other articles of domestic use, which are to he found in the region bear testimony to the 
excellent grade of iron produced from these ores. It was a high grade car wheel iron as shown 
by analysis made l>v the chemisl of the geological survey. The thickness of the ores varies 
from one foot to ten feet, and they cover an extent of many square miles. 

Asphalt. — The latest and most accessible r'f the many valuable minerals of this highly 
favored region arc tin' extensive asphalt beds, composed of a sharp white sand, saturated 
with pure bitumen which, when exposed to the air, hardens and cements the grains of 
sand, and thereby forms a natural material for the construction of the highest grade of 
pavements for cities and towns, as well as floors for breweries, stables and numerous other 
industries. This material is found immediately along the projected route of the above- 
mentioned railroad and covers an area thirty miles long and five miles wide. The sand- 
stone contains from eight to twelve per cent of bitumen, a portion of which oozes out on 

exposure to the sun, and occasionally collects in | Is, to the extent of many tons. From 

a point in the same geological 
horizon and not far distant, it 
has been extensively opened, and 
many hundred tons have been 
shipped to Buffalo, New York, 
where ten miles of streets have 
been constructed from it in the 
last three years. It is destined 
to become the greal paving ma- 
terial of the Mississippi Valley, 
because of its accessibility by 
water to the cities oi Pittsburgh, 
Cincinnati, Louisville, Evans- 
ville, St. Louis, Memphis, New 
Orleans. ( ialveston, Houston and 
other cities of the valley. It can be laid down in the city of New York by water at a cosl 
of less than $5.00 per ton, including quarrying and transportation. Experiment.-, are now 
being made in the latter city — and it is more than probable that within the coming year, 
large shipments will be made to that point and Brooklyn. The material is found in great 
quantities, in bluffs of sandstone ranging from five to fifteen feel thick, which can be readily 
quarried in many places at a cost of twenty-five cents per ton, and can be placed on barges 
in Green Liver for less than one dollar per ton. It will be wonderful indeed, if a material 
made in nature's laboratory, by some of her undiscovered processes, which baffle imitation, 
and s.i nearly ready for use, should fail to be used, in regions where it is so greatly needed. 




U. S. SNAG BOAT, WM PRESTON DIXON. 
AT WORK ON GREEN RIVER 






THE GREEN RIVEK OOI s I RV 



Examimed under a microscope it is found to !»• compoaed of ■ pure sharp Band em elop ■! 
in a coating ofjel black, elastic material known as bitumen, which represents the oxidized 
product "I <"al oil, after ages • •! exposure, under the evaporative and absorptive prtw 

of nature. Nature has 
Bhown great deliberation 
and precision in tin- de- 
velopment "t tlii- 1 1 nt — 
terial, and the result is 
a well-nigh indestructi- 
ble product, w hich, when 
properly laid down has 
resisted the Be% er< si t< sis 
nil the -i n eta ol some 
nt' the largest • - 1 1 i « - in 
the I ninn. 

An almost identical 
material is largelj used 
in San Francisco and the 
Pacific i-itii ■-. where it is 
tlin^ spoken of: " Against 
the assaults of Buch bigh 
traffic, bituminous rock 
baa Btood the teat for ten 
ice may be Bpread over 
hoof and wheel, it has 




FLOATING STUDIO OK H SCHROBTBR 



war-. Iii a climate where no protecting mantle of snow and 

it for weeks :it a time t" r sive the wear and L'tiinl of 

resisted the relentless solvents of sun and air. From the day the tir-t I t strikes it 

there is absolutely no resl for bitumen in California. Yet it has outlived the bitter oppo- 
sition of the metropolitan journals, and is to-day the only public improvement outside of 
Golden Gate Park of which the municipality of San Francisco may feel proud. Winn 
proper!} constructed of material from approved mines, it is believed bj those best informed 
in tbis branch of municipal engineering thai bituminous rock pavements will give ideal service 
for twentj years, and then have t" be renewed as to surface or wearing coat only, afore 
than one hundred and < ij^li t miles "t' pavement have been constructed, all of which is 
willingly guaranteed for five years." 

The Kentucky rock is being largely introduced into Louisville, but is meeting with 
the same opposition from both newspapers and paving companies as was experienced in 
San Francisco, bul it is bound to triumph in the end. 

< lays — These consist of beds ranging in thickness from five to eight feet, differing 
in composition, bo as to produce fire briok, vitrified paving brick and pottery clays. Tiny 

wholly undeveloped. 

< »■ mi:i — in the numerous caverns are found vast deposits of brown, drab and 
variegated ochres of the finest quality. 

M i:i. — Underlying the Bhales and interoolated among the thin bedded limestom - an 
found beds of five t" fifteen feet of what i- called bj Prof Shaler, Litchfield marl, which 
contains soda and potash in Buck form as i- easilj rendered soluble by exposure, and which 
mak< ccellent fertiliser for land rendered worthless bj the continued cultivation <>t 



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27 



tobacco and the cereals. The quantity of this material is inexhaustible, and must come 
it | • < > 1 1 the market as soon as transportation reaches the beds. 

Timber — Millions of feet of the finest hardwood timbers produced in temperate 
climates have been taken from this region, and untold quantities are -till left. Billions of 
hoop-poles and staves have been floated from here down the Mississippi to New Orleans, 
and they are still going without abatement. More than 120 varieties of merchantable 
timber are found in these counties. Thousands ol ties are now piled along the banks of 
Green River awaiting the inspector and steamboat, and such has Keen the ease for years. 

Water Power — Thousands of horse power are annually going to waste in this 
prolific region, and the streams with their continuous How the entire year are waiting only 
for enterprise and capital to harness them to iron furnace, furniture tactorv, saw mill, cotton 
factory and other industries of a like nature to furnish the cheapest power on this continent. 

Climate — In this bounteous region the vertically torrid sun of the South and the 
freezingly frigid blasts of the bleak and blizzardy North and West are unknown. The 




THE ADERDEEN COAL AND MINING COMPANY S STEAMER I. N. HOOK ANDISECTION OF ILLINOIS 
CENTRAL RAILROAD BRIDGE AT ROCKPORT. 



climate is delightfully mild, so much so that outdoor labor can be performed comfortably 
every day in the year, and cattle can range the fields for ten months, while it is never 
necessary to house or shelter them continuously. The large number of extremely well 
preserved and vigorous old men and women hear the best and most unimpeachable testimony 
to the salubrity and healthfulness of the climate. 



I II 1 QBE] N KIVKl: 0O1 NTHY 



BOWLING GREEN. 

J I \ 1 1 1 . city of Bowling < Ireen stands at the head "t the < Ireen River Black water Bystem 
and is the metropolis of the Green River valley, [ts situation is npon ground gentlj 

sloping to Barren River from a series of c landing hills in its southern and western 

suburbs. V\ i the summit "t these hills a magnificent view i- obtained of the < ■ i t \ lying 

:it their feel and "l the beautiful valley of the Barren River t" 1 1 » < - east, south and west, 
and of the lofty hills that mark the course of the Green and Barren rivers to the north. 
On the crest "t the eastern most of these hills is located the city water reservoir, w!iil<- ii> 
—ii i-i ling declivities, comprising several acres, covered with blue grass and adorned with 





BOWLING ORBBN PROM OODBN COLLBGB LOOKING NORTHEAST 

shade, fruit and ornamental trees, constitute a delightful park. ' >n il"- apex •■( the liill 
and Burrounding the basin of the reservoir is a balnstraded cement pavement, furnished 

with seats, forming ;i most agreeable promenade and resting place in the i I "t the summer 

mornings and ■ \ enin 

\ striking fi ature of the city of Bowling < In i n is the profusion ol shade tn es which 
adorn her streets and yards, mostly maple and elm. A view from the promenadi on 

Reservoir Hill, in summer, shows the city almost buI trged in the dark green foliaj 

these beautiful tr< 

The population "I Bowling Green, including her suburbs, is about twelve thousand. 
All her streets are macadamized and are kept in excellent condition by vigilent city su- 
pervision. The city is provided «iili a most efficient syste t water works and an electric 

li^'lit pi ant/ both of which :ir<- owned and operated b) ili> municipality. 



FROM ROWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



29 



One of the dominant interests of the city centers In her educational institutions. 
These are of much more than local importance. The Potter < lollege, for young ladies; the 
Ogden College, for young men, and the Business College and Normal School of Cherry 
Bros., are institutions of learning of distinguished merit. The Potter College for young 
ladies is especially celebrated for the completeness of its equipment, the high character of 
its educational course and its watchful care over the welfare of its pupils. Its enrollment 
lists contain the names of pupils from many of the southern and middle states of the Union. 
In addition to these notable institutions there are private schools for the special training of 
children, and the city 
maintains a most excel- 
lent system of free pub- 
lic schools, which, under 
the superintendencv of 
Prof. Edward Taylor, 
have attained an exalted 
degree of efficiency. On 
account of the salubrity 
of its situation and its 
educational advantages, 
Bowling Green is a city 
of homes Many families 
of independent means 
have located here on ac- 
count ot these attractions, 
and many ot the resi- 
dences present an ap- 
pearance of architectural 
elegance and yard adorn- 
ment unusual in a city ot 
its size. The commercial 
importance of Bowling 
Green is that of a thriv- 
ing, prosperous inland 
city surrounded by a most fertile region of farming land, yet situated as it is at the very 
top df the navigable waters of Green River,it only requires the touch of capital and com- 
mercial enterprise to make it an important manufacturing and distributing center, exercis- 
ing a commanding influence over the commerce of the rivers and surrounding'sections 
of country in a marked degree. 

Ogden College for young men is an institution of learning equal to any in the 
state for the education of young men and in the thoroughness of its collegiate course, ft 
stands as a monument to the liberality of Its founder, Robert W. Ogden, deceased, who 
provided in his will for the purchase of grounds, and for the erection of suitable buildings 
thereon, adapted to the purposes of an institution of learning. He also provided a fund from 
the income of which aid is furnished young men in securing an education. The college 
stands amidst spacious and well-shaded grounds on a beautiful hill, overlooking the city of 




M. E. CHURCH SOUTH. BOWLING GREEN. KY 

BUlLTl IN 1898-7. COST $35,000 BUILT OP WHITE AND GRAY LIMESTONE FROM 
WARREN COUNTY QUARRIES 



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°COEN, THE F 



o^° v 



Bowling Green, and imanding ;i view of hill, field and forest for miles aronnd. Ii- 

situation secures Balubrity of at phere, inspiring scenery and thai isolation from the 

enrrente "I human activitj bo essentia] t" study. The 
1 tgden fund makes provision i^v forty free scholar- 
ships, issued i" worthy young men of the state, who 
oei 'I aid. 

For a lull description of the course of instruction, 
rul<> of the college and information as to the cost "l 
living in Bowling Green, board "t students, etc., 
address Ogden College, Bowling Green, Cy. 

Roberi W. Ogden, the founder of the college which 
bears lii- name, was an eminent citizen of Warren 
county, who was impressed with tin- needs of the 6tate 
for an institution where young men could obtain :i free 
collegiate education. He therefore provided al lii> 

death for the !■ ling <<i the institution which has so 

successfully accomplished the end he had in view. 
His munificent uift to his fellow-citizens has been the 

means ol placing many y ig men in positions 

usefulness and honor, who otherwise would have been disqualified for lack "l education. 
The college and its work is a fitting monument to the liberality and character of this noble 
man. The people of Kentucky owe him :i debt of gratitude, which they universally evince 

by honoring his name and memory, and the grand scl 1 which lii- foresight established 

will continue to be the ex] >nt of that love "I humanity which was bis distinguishing 

characteristic « bile living. 

William A.. ObeKchain, \ M., President of Ogden College, was born in Buchanan, 

Botetourt county, Va., April '.'7. 1841, and comes of g 1 old German, Dutch, Welsh, 

English and Anglo-Nor- 
man stock. After two 
\ ears spent in attending 
the classical and mathe- 
matical ^'1 1 "I N\ Hi. 

II' i:ill, in lii- time ! 

ofthe foremost educators 

of the < »lil I dominion, he ! * » 

■ ntered the Virginia Mil- 
itary Institute and there 
duated, in 1861 . with 
the highest honors in :i 
classofthirt) eight mem- 
bers. In A I'i'il, 1861 , he 
went i" Richmond, Va., 

with the "ps of cadets, 

under command "I Major 

Thomas J.Jackson,afl 

ward General "8tone- oodbn collbob 




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wall" Jackson, and there served temporarily as instructor of light artillery. He then 
received a commission in the regular army of the Confederate States, and served with 
distinction throughout the war, in the engineer corps, under Generals Branch, French, 
Whiting, Robert E. Lee and others. He was promoted for meritorious conduct on the 
Williamsburg Road, near Richmond, Va., in 1864; and from October, 18G4, to Lee's 
surrender, he was one of the staff engineers of the army of Northern Virginia, under 
( leneral Lee. 

In 1866 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Military and < 'ivil Engineering 
in the Hillslioro (N. C.) Military Academy, under General R. E. Colston; in 186* he 
received the appointment of Professor of Mathematics and Commandant of Cadets in the 
Western Military Academy, at New Castle, Ky., under General E. Kirby Smith; in 1870 
he went with General Smith to the 
University of Nashville, where he served 
as Professor of Mathematics and of 
French and German, and as Command- 
ant of Cadets. In 1878 he was elected 
Professor of Mathematics in Ogden 
College, Bowling Green, Ky., and in 
1 883, on the resignation of his prede- 
cessor, Dr. J. W. Wightman, he was made 
president of the same institution with- 
out any solicitation on his part. 

Major Obenchain is an honorary 
member of the American Whig Society, 
of Princeton, N. J. ; of the National 
Committee of the Body of Counselors of 
the American Institute of Civics; of the 
American Academy of Political and Social 
Science; of the British Economic Asso- 
ciation; of the National University 
Committee of One Hundred, and Secre- 
tary of the XV. Club of Bowling Green, 
Ky., an active and influential literary 
society composed of some of the ablest men of Bowling Green. He was one of the honorary 
vice presidents of the Department Congress of Higher Education of the International 
Congress of Education of the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. 

Major Obenchain is an accomplished scholar, an able educator, a progressive and 
public-spirited citizen, a contributor to Southern Historical Society papers, and a vigorous 
and forcible writer on political and economic subjects. 

Potter College. — A book of the Green River country would be incomplete 
without a description of Potter College for young ladies. This grand school for the 
education of young ladies stands in the front rank of the educational institutions of the 
country. Its equipment for the purposes of its establishment are unsurpassed by none in 
the South, and by few in the entire country. It has one hundred rooms, heated by steam 
and lighted by gas. It is supplied with bath rooms and hot and cold water. Its parlors, 




WILLIAM.A OBENCHAIN. PRESIDENT OF OGDEN COLLEGE 






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reading and library rooms :irv elegantly furnished. It- class r 1- are provided with all 

the appliances and scientific apparatus necessary t<> aid in the instructi 1 its pupils. The 

beauty "f it- situation and the imposing bo nerj which surround it contribute t" it- desir- 
uliilit seal "f learning. It Btands upon a lofty and shaded hill, in it- own park of 



<* f* 




RBV B F CABBLL PRESIDBNT OF POTTBR COLLBGB 



trees and flowers, overlooking the city of Bowling Green, and commanding ■ view of ■ 
oharmtng landscape whichever waj the beholder turns. Everj department "t it- educa- 
tional course is presided over by teachers celebrated for their efficiency ;>- educators. 



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I 111 GREEN l:l\ 1 R OOUN1 ttt 




KS OK POTTER COLLEGE- CLASS OK 1897 

Memphis, Tenn. M\ki M\ki\ Payni Bowling Green, Kv. 

Hannah Claypooi Green, K.%. \| \m I.i-.e I'm i -m «\ H>«ling Green, Ki. 
i .... Pine Bluff, Aik Mvkc.akit Rokm Bowling Green, K\ 

\i\\. Danville, ki ELIZABETH Rm.ii.-~ Bowling Green. Kv. 

CORINNI BVSRBTI Green, Ky. Nki.lik B. SAMUBM . . . CampbelUville, ki. 

Faulconbh Danville, K>. Elizabeth Underwood Bowling Green. K\ 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVTLLE. 



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Pleasant J. Potter, President of Potter's Bank. — Every town or community 

has among its residents one man on whom the commercial importance of the town or c - 

munitv seems to hinge. He it is who leads in all public enterprises and his name is 
associated with all schemes that have for their object the advancement of the public weal. 
Bowling Green has many patriotic and enterprising citizens of which her people are justly 
proud, and at the head of this much to l>e admired set of gentlemen stands the subjeci of 
this sketch, Pleasant J. Potter, the founder and head of the financial institution bearing his 
name. Mr. Potter was born in Warren county, in 1820, and has been actively engaged 
in business in Bowling 
Green for over half a 
century. He, together 
with Mr. Vivian, opened 
the bank over which he 
to-day presides, in 1869. 
This is the oldest and 
strongest financial insti- 
tution in the city, and 
Mr. Potter's reputation 
as a conservative banker 
is known all over the 
state. The business of 
the bank to-day is con- 
ducted by James Eras- 
mus, Herbert P. and 
Wm. J. Potter, all of 
whom are sons of Pleas- 
ant J. Potter, and are all 
able, far seeing energetic 
business men. This fam- 
ily of Potters are the 
largest holders of real 
estate in the county, and 
every foot of their vast 
possessions is liable for 
the obligations of the 
bank. It is an institu- 
tion of individual responsibility, and all of the wealth ot the family forms the capital on 
which they do business. Pleasant J. Potter is well known to the people of the Green 
River valley, and is honored and esteemed by all who enjoy his acquaintance. He has 
served the people of Warren county in an official capacity on several occasions, and it can 
be said of him that he transacted the public business with the same care that he has ever 
devoted to his own affairs. He has been at all times ready and willing to give of his means 
to worthy charity, and has ever been a supporter of educational institutions. So prominent 
has he been in this latter work that the Potter College was named in his honor. In this 
work it is not the intention of the publishers to indulge in fulsome praise, but our work 
would be poorly done, indeed, did we not give to our readers at some length the results of 




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TIIK GR] IN IMVI R (..INI l:V 



Pleasant J. Potter's long and useful life. He bas been succesafiil because l>i- indomitable 
will and perseverence would !»• satisfied with nothing sborl of success, and now when he 
has reached thai -ta;_ r <- of life's journey where the Bhadowe I » « • -_r i 1 1 to fall inward the east, be 
can enjoy the blessing of seeing bis life work perpetuated by his sons who are honored citizens 
.il the community in which they wi re born and n an d. 

The Cm Schools wen organized under a special charter approved by the legisla- 
ture on February 2, 1 SN J. This was al the end of a spirited contesl before the people. 
Hon. J. M. Wilkin- and Hon. J. A. Mitchell, leading the winning Bide. Buildings having 

.. been erected, the scl I- were openi .1 on January 

29th, 18$ The gentlemen named have been 

the board "I education fr the beginning. 

Supt. W. B. Wylie served from the first, till 
his death in November, 1894. His skill and 

devotion made the scl 1- in a large measure 

wliat they arc He was succeeded bj Supt. 
Edward Taylor, the present incumbent. 

Thereare three buildings, one I ><i ml: for col- 
ored pupils. Thereare twenty-aeven teachers, ten 
liciipj colored. The enrollment for 1897 was 
one thousand four hundred and Bixteen The 
capita "I the state is supplemented by a 
tax of thirty cents to the one hundred dollars 
'■t' valuation, and a pari "t the |>"ll taxes. 

The course of Btudj i prises nine grades, 

oin' for each year. All the common school 
studies are completed in ■ iirlit grades, the ninth 
being all advanced work. The citj has no high 

bcI I, the three local colleges supplying thai 

need to some extent Each building is supplied 

with a -mall Inn growing library; the text-l ks are thi besl obtainable. The in- 

struction i- very thorough and approved, and up-to-date methods are used in 1 »■ • 1 1 » govern- 
ment and instruction. Visitors are welcome al any hour. The people of Bowling Green 
appreciate the merits of their schools. 

The Banking [sstiti noNa of Bowling Green area pi linent feature in its com- 
mercial and <-ivi<- importance. Ii bas n<> bank organized under the national banking law, 

• sequcntl) no bank "t issue, bul it- banks of exchange and deposit, organized under 

special authority of the Btate legislature, are foremost ai ig 1 1 1 « ■ monied institutions of the 

state for their stability and conservatism "i management There are three banks, the Potters', 
The Warren Deposit, and Potter, Matlock & ('..., all of which enjoy a high reputation al 
home and abroad. 

The Warren Deposm Bank, organized in 1871 under special legislative authority, 
i. one "I the strong! si institutions of the country. The bank bas an authorized capital "t 
ti\( hundred thousand dollars, a paid in capital of two hundred thousand and t sur- 
plus fund of one hundred thousand dollars, ft is the only chartered bank in Bowling 




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Green. Its officers are C. G. Smallhouse, president; L. R. Porter, cashier; T. J. Smith, 
J. G. Covington, James Cuthbertson and C. S. Allen, directors. 

C. G. Smallhouse, the President of the Warren DeposM Bank, is a gentleman, who 
has impressed his personality upon every enterprise with which he has Keen associated. 
Bis clear perception of the means necessary to success and his energy in adapting the means 
to the desired end, places him in the front rank of the business men of his section. Mr. 
Smallhouse has been connected with many of the enterprises that have contributed to the 
commercial importance of the city of Bowling Green. He was one of the promoters 
and was mainly instrumental in the development of the ice and cold storage plant, which 
has become a very flourishing industry. He was one of (he principal business managers of 
the affairs of the Green and Barren 
River Navigation Company, acquiring 
an interest by purchase of stock in the 
enterprise. He negotiated the sale of 
the company's franchise to the general 
government, thus conferring upon the 
people the free navigation of the river 
for all time to come. As president of 
a large monied institution, involving 
the exercise of great business judgement, 
he has fully demonstrated his ability 
as a financier, and his faithfulness in 
conserving the interest of others. In 
fact his whole career stamps him as a 
public spirited citizen, who while not 
inattentive to his own private interests 
and those personal ambitions which arc 
or should be the spring of all human 
action, he has not forgotten that he 
owes society a duty in the furtherance 
ol schemes for the general good. In 
manner, Mr. Smallhouse is reserved 
and thoughtful and disposed to shrink from public notoriety, hut is frank and sociable 
in disposition and impresses the sincerity of his character upon all with whom he comes 
in contact. lie is a member of the Presbyterian church, and exemplifies in his daily 
walk and conversation the character of an upright citizen and a christian gentleman. 

L. R. Porter, Cashier of the Warren Deposit Bank, is a native Kentuckian, <U^- 
eended from illustrious stock, whose history is identified with the first settlement of the 
state. Mi-. Porter is a gentleman of tine presence and striking physique. Tall and stal- 
wart, he is the personification of young Kentucky manhood. Sedate in manner, yet ener- 
getic in action he is an ideal representative of the modern business man. United with these 
attractive personal characteristics is a character universally admired tor it- gentleness, so- 
briety and manliness. Mr. Porter has been connected \\ ith the banking interests of the city 
for a number of years and although vet a young man. stands high in financial circles. 
He possesses the unbounded confidence ol his associates in the institution of which he 




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I II I GREEN RIVER COUN1 RY 




i- :t i > offioer, as well as •■( it- \«<~i • >! patrons aod the | >■ ■• • | >1< • ;ii large. In private and 
domestic life Mr. Porter illustrates the virtues and graces thai should always adorn the 
character "I the faultless gentleman and the perfect citizen. 

Bowling Green i- the center "l trade 
and principal market for :i ven large 
scope "t surrounding country embracing 
the adjoining counties. It- merchants 
carry complete and extensive stoi ; 

g I- :i ii< 1 ever) line i- fully represented. 

The industries of ili< city cover all the 
essential needs of a progjn Bsive commun- 
ity. There are two mercbanf flouring 

mills, tw achine Bhops, and three 

planing mill?. < me of these operated by 

Roe Hi"-, in :uliliti"ii to ;i large local 

business, supplies an extensive outsidi 
demand for mill work and building ma- 
terial. 

The I i rner, I>\^ a \\ ' WORTH 

M \m i l< ii ring < '". operate a handle 
factory, employing a large number "I 

nun. 

The Bow ling Green Ici vnvi Jold 
Storaoi Oo. This company is ■ . | »<- i-:i i - 
ing "Hi ol the most prosperous industries not only "I the city of Bowling Green, bnf "I the 
entire Green River section. Their principal business is the manufacture of ice, the pro- 
duction of their factory being fifteen tons daily. The city "I Bowling Green is entirely 
supplied from their factory, besides which they have a large and growing trad the riv- 
ers and throughout the surrounding towns and country. The works were firal started in 
1888, 1'iit were verj much improved ami enlarged when'the present ipany acquired pos- 
session, and the latesl and m-.-t improved appliances were adopted. The company i- in- 
corporated under the 
laws "l tin state ••( Ken- 
tucky. The |> re sent 
management "t the af- 
fairs ofthe companj is in 
the bands "l the follow • 
ing offiot rs : James 1 1. 
Wilkerson, president;^ 
II. Jones, -■ • " tary; I 
< . Smallhouse, treasurer. 
The i • i t _\ i- provided 
with exoelli nt hotels, 
equipped "itli all mod- 
ern convenience -. The 
hotels and buaineas por- 



L R PORTER CASHIER WARREN DEPOSIT BANK 




BOWLINO ORXEN ICE AND COLD STORAOK PLANT 



fi:om i;ohi,im; i;i;i;i;n to kvansvi i.i.i-:. 



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tions of the city are reached by electric cars, running from the depots and river landing. 
The church edifices <>f Bowling Green arc constructed more with a view to the attain- 
ment of comfort than that of grandeur. They attest in their number and proportions the 
strong influence of religious sentiment among the people. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, lately erected is a very elegant and sub- 
stantial structure, exhibiting more of the ornate in architecture than any other in the city. 
It is built entirely of white and gray limestone from the quarries near the city. These 
quarries have been noticed elsewhere, but in connection with the industries of the city, it 
may be mentioned that Mr. E. Smallhouse, .secretary of the McClellan Stone Co., is at the 
head of an industry engaged in the manufacture of monuments. In this business much use 




BOWLING GREEN. LOOKING EAST FROM OGDEN COLLEGE 

is made of the beautiful Oolitic limestone from this quarry. A variety of this stone has 
very much the appearance and texture of granite and is capable of being worked into shafts 
and designs for monumental purposes and supports a beautiful finish. 

Bowling Green sustains a. wide spread reputation as a horse market. There are a 
number of dealers in the city who make a specialty of handling fine blooded animals and 
whose establishments for this purpose are fitted with every modern convenience. Annual 
sale-, of thoroughbred horses are conducted by these gentlemen which attract buyers and 
horse fanciers from every part of the country. Mr. E. P. Xeale owns and operates a huge 
farm in the vicinity of the city, devoted especially to the breeding and training of tine 
stock. The animals bred on his farm are famous throughout the country tor thoroughbred 
qualities. lie has spent vast sums in the importation ami breeding of pure blooded stock. 
There are others engaged in the same business. J. L. Jenkins .V Sons, Mansfield Kirbv, 
The Kentucky Horse Breeding Association, all ol whom contribute to the reputation of 
Bowling Green as a horse market. 



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I III GBEE.N CIVIl: CO! MI.1 



Db. G. E. Townsend, Mayor of the city 

■ ntj , K • 1 1 1 1 1 " ■ k \ . « bere be \sa- born in I - 




O E TOWNSBND MAYOR OK BOWLING GRBBN 

M \ i.i OLM 1 1 a i; i ( 1:1 Mr was born in < ul 
. and began lii~ educal ion al the I" -i 

private bcI Is in 1 1 » « - <>l<l Dominion, 

completing the same :ii the historic 
Virginia Military Institute al Lexington, 
Va., w h< re lie graduated -• cond in :i 
class of fift) -three. He then pursui 'I 
a practical geological course in the Har- 
vard summer schools, and was connected 
with ili«' geological Burvey "I Kentucky 
for more than fifteen years, filling :ill 
stations from the topographic work t" 
the office of state geologist. He has also 

I n constantly and intimately associated 

with the Kentucky Btate guard, having 
organised the firel company in Southern 
Kentucky, in 1879, and filled the grades 

from captain t lonel and inspector 

general, in which capacity he served on 
i In- staff of both Governors Buck ner and 
Brown. He is ""« actively interested 
in the development of Kentucky . 



• •I Bowling Green, i- | oativi • •) Logan 
II. graduated in medicine and pharmacy 
at the Vanderbilt University of Nash- 
ville. He practiced bis profession for 
two years in lii- native county, after 
which be removed to Bowling Green, 
where he has resided ever since. A.fter 
two years "i general practice in the latter 
city, he gave up lii» practice and devoted 
himself to pharmacy, lnr which lii- « ■ lu- 
cation and training had specially fitted 
him. I le made :i tudj ol optics, and 
united with his busiuess <>l pharmacy 
thai "t a scientific optician. He served 

a time as a member "t the < imon 

council of il ity, and in 1 B97 was 

elected mayor "I the city, which office 

he now holds. The comi souncil 

elected al the si ■ time were: W. M. 

1 ■ i . .1. B. Sumpt< i . • liMil. - B. Smith, 
Prank Maier, II. I. Gal vin, V. Johnson, 
L. A. Jenkins, I . K ister, Jr., John 
i 1 >iiiniii_'. Prank Moom y, I . ' (rear 

ami John I 'i an 

pepper county, Va., loss than hall a century 




001. M H ORUMP 



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Judge \V. ). Settle — The Green River country is not lacking in nun who by their 
owe indomitable persevera and force of character have attained high and honorable po- 
sitions among' their fellow men. Such a man is Judge W . K. Settle. A mere youth at the 
elose of the eivil war, lie was left like many others, de- 
pendent on his own exertions for a livelihood and for 
the acquirement of that mental training that should fit 
him for the profession to which he had predetermined to 
devote himself, But for eight years such was his in- 
dustry and determination of purpose, that he not only 
acquired a first-rate education covering the English 
branches, but also made such progress in the study of the 
law that he was a 'mitted to its practice in the fall of 
1871. His ability and excellence of character soon 
won for him a place among the foremost members of the 
legal profession ami lor more than twenty years he has 
continued to illustrate the character of an able lawyer, 
an honored and useful citizen and a good man. In 1892 he 
was elected judge of the circuit court for the eighth ju- 
dicial circuit, composed of tin unties of Allen, Butler, 

Edmonson and Warren, which position he now holds. 
having been re-elected in 1897. 




JUDGE W. E SETTLE. 
OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OP KENTUCKY 



Hon. Nat. .. Pouter — Among the number of individuals who by reason of talent 
and energy, occupy a conspicuous place in public affairs in the Green River country, we 
mention the name of Hon. Nat. A. Porter. Mr. Porter is in many respects a self-made 

man. Gifted by nature with a strong 
and purposeful character, he realized 
that eminence among men had its true 
foundation in the ability to serve 
them. To this end he applied himself 
to study and to the attainment of that 
practical knowledge ot social needs 
which should qualify him for usefulness 
among his fellow men. The legal pro- 
fession commended itself to him as best 
suited to his mental constitution and as 
constituting the best basis of opportunity. 
Accordingly he devoted himself to the 
study of the law. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1879, and began practice 
in the office of his brother, the late John 
M. Porter, in Bowling Green. After 
the death of his brother he was elected 
to the office of Commonwealth^ Attor- 
ney in the Fifth judicial circuit, to till 
the unexpired term of his brother. On 

HON. NAT A. PORTER. .' , 

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF KENTUCKY till' eXplWltlOll HI tills tellll tie Was 11- 

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l Ml GR1 r\ RIV1 B OOUK I 1:1 



■ I. <■!. .1 to the same office f>>r the full term "f -i\ j i are. < »n the re-districting "f the 8tat4 . 
Mr. Porter was put in the Eighth district, being again elected for a terra "t five years 
which term be baa filled to the lull satisfaction "I the people. In 1 S '-'T be was ren I 
in the office of the Commonwealth's Attorney for the Eighth judicial circuit which office 
he dow holds. 

.Iwn- II \\'iikm:-in — City civil engineer, was born in Bowli a and has held 

lii- present position Bince 1882. He has under lii- personal supervision the streets, sewers, 
the fire department, the water w>rk- and the electric lighting, and how well he bas pi r- 

formed lii- duties i- attested bj his ti nuance in office. It was through lii- exertions thai 

the people of the city to-day are able to enjoy the beautiful park on reservoir bill. II- 
advocated it againsl the strongest possible opposition and >li<l nol lei up until it- < ipletion 





CHAS E WALLIN PHOTOGRAPHER 



THE JOY OP THE HOUSEHOLD 
UK WILL OIRARD 8 BABY 



was assured. He saw the advantages to be derived Gram the park and used all ol his endeavors 
to combat arguments iiltmi n-t it made b) men \\li<> to-dav Bee the wisdom oi 1 1 » « - movement 
I >u ri 11 ^ Mr. WilUii— hi"- incumbency ..t the office ol civil engineer all ol the streets of the 
cit> have been made or improved. The water works under lii- management baa beoomi :i 
paying institution, not onlj furnishing cheaper and better water t" the people than dot - anj 
other system in the state, but turning into the sinking fund each year three thousand 
dollar? Mi Willsi r-i.ii has been a l:<">i| anil faithful servant of the people, not one 
lint nt the public funds having been wasted or misapplied during the fifteen yean ol lii* 
public servii 

Q I Stickmev was born at 8t Paul, Minn., January 24th, 1869. His father is Lieut 
< 'i.l. Ann- Stick ney, of the corps of engineers United States armj . and as he has bad ol 

ivernment work of river and harbor improvement in various sections of tl nntry, 



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the subject of tliis sketch has practically been brought up on such work. He received his 
education in both public and private schools, and is a graduate of the Sheffield scientific 
school of Yale University, completing the cour.se in civil engineering in 1891, with the 
degree <>f Ph. B. Shortly after graduating lie went to Mexico in the employ of the Inter- 
national Railroad Company, which was at that time constructing the Durango extension 
from the citv of Torreon, Coahuilla, to the city of Durango, capital of the state of the same 
name, lie occupied successfully the position of chalnman, rodman and level-man in the 
party sent to retrace the line tor construction, ami on completion of this work was made 
resident engineer in charge of the construction of thirty miles ot road. He also 
had charge of the construction of buildings and laving out of tracks in the 
Durango depot grounds. On the completion of the above work he was placed in charge of 
the grading of twenty-four miles of the Sierra Mojada Extension, a branch line leaving the 
main line at Monclova and running into the rich .silver district of the Sierra Madre Moun- 





MISS HATTIE C00KSEY 



MISS BELLE COOMBES 



tains. This latter work was suspended on a unt of the panic of L893. He was then 

employed on the engineering department of the Mexican International railroad at Cuidad 
Porfirio Diaz, the headquarters of the road, being engaged in making small surveys, plans, 
etc. After remaining with this road for nearly two years he resigned and went to Cincin- 
nati, < )., where his lather was at that time stationed. Within a short time he was employed 
as United State- assistant engineer to make a survey for Lock No. 7, Kentucky River, and 
after completion of this work was retained as assistant engineer in the United States 
engineer's otliee at Frankfort, Ky., where he remained for two years employed in connection 
with the repairs necessary in operating and care of canals and other works of navigation on 
Kentucky River. On October I. 1S!)5, he was placed in charge of the government work 
on Green and Barren Rivers, and has since remained in charge of this work, with the 
exception of the construction of Lock No. 5 on Upper Green River, which has been com- 



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menced within the last year. On Decembei 12, 1896, thi government work on Rough 
River was turned over to bis charge, the new lock being completed al that time. ll> 
saoceeded Lieut J. J. Meyler, of the corps <>t engineers, I'. 8. A., who formerly 

bad charge of Green and Barren 
Rivers. Be is a junior member of the 
American Society oi Civil Engineers. 
He was married t<> Miss (Catherine 
Halloran :it Frankfort, Ky., October 1. 
1894 

The press of Bowling Green is well 
and ably represented bj several enter- 
prising newspaper establishments. In 
addition to tin- daily ami weekly pub- 

lished by the company of which Mr. 
John B. Gaines i- the general manager, 
an account •>! w li i< -1 > is given below 
miller special heading, («" other weekly 
newspapt rs are published: 

The W \i:ki n Cot n n < "i bibb — 
William .1. Denhardt, general man 

ami Dr. John 1>. M Is, editor, is an 

able and popular paper. It is Demo- 
cratic in politics and has the lai 
circulation of any weeklj newspaper in 
Warren county. It believes in majority 

rule, ami does not believe a minority should govern a majority when fairly beaten. Dr. 
Is -;i\ - ..i his paper, "it i- alike opposed to anarchy and wrong, and !■• ends attained 

by bribery and corruption. The platform ol it- part] is its platform and from Jefferson's 

time down to the Chicago platform ol 1896, the courier asserts the perfect consistency ■■! 

I>ei ratie principles with the true theory oi a Republican form rnment." 

The Bowling Gbeeh Dehocbai is a live weekly paper, owned and published b) I.. 
L. Russell, and has been running lor thirty years. 

The Pabb Cttj Daily Times was established August 28, 1882, !>y John B. 
Gaines, it- present editor and general manager, who ran it until about the first ol January, 
when he Bold it to a stock companj on account ol having been appoint) il postmanti r 
of tin s city of Bowling Green On February '_'". last, Mr. Gaines formed a Btook company 
and repurchased Tht Timet from the old company, and is now general manager and editor 
ul tin- paper with a fine corps ol assistants in th< i ditorial, reportorial and business d< part- 
iiK nt ~. It is probably the most successful country town daily in the state, and has a 
circulation that would do credit to a city double the site of Bowling Green. 

The Times Gazette — The weekly eddition, was established in 1875, and is f 

the best wei k U papers in the Grei d Riv< r section, and has a circulation extending through- 
out the eleven counties of the Third Congressional ili-triet. \l Gaines is a young man 
• in- not quite fort} yean of age, and is a pn , wide-awake newspaper man. 



TICKNBY. U S ASSITANT ENGINKBR 
HISS J08IPHINB 8TICKNBY 



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45 




whose experience in thai line <>f business dates back over twenty years. In fact, his energy 

is so well established where known, that he is very often referred to by his familiar friends 

as "git up and git," a motto he once used 

in a publication of the newspaper. The 

Times job office is one of the best and most 

compete in the country, and does a large 

amount of all kinds of printing, including 

catalogue and I k work of a superior 

quality. Mr. Gaines was married in 1878 
to Miss Winnie McCutehen, of Simpson 
county, and is the father of three children, 
two sons and one daughter. 

J. L. Jenkins, one of the leading 

Stock raisers and stock dealers of the 

Green River country is a native of Warren 

county, Ky., born in 1*44. Mr. Jenkins 

operates a very large livery and sales 

stable in the city of Bowling (ireen, 

his dealings in horses alone amounting to 

forty thousand dollars a year. His farm of 

two hundred and fifty acres of fine, rich 

land lies about two miles west of the city. john b gaines 

This land devoted mostly to grass and 

pasture is noted for its fertility but is used by Mr. Jenkins mostly for breeding and stock 

raisintr. His two sons, Allen and Charles \V. are associated with him in the business Mr. 

Jenkins is a fine specimen of the genial, 
whole-souled Kentucky gentleman, atten- 
tive to business, but taking an interest in 
all that concerns his section. He is a 
representative man of the class that forms 
and upholds the great interests of the 

country and contributes to its development. 

Hon. Wm. Cook — Mr. Cook is an old 
and universally respected citizen of War- 
ren county, in which he has lived for near 
a half century, fie has- retired from active 
business life, having acquired a competency 
by years oi industry and judicious effort. 

lie lives on a line farm aboul two and 
:i half miles easl of Bowling Green, where 
in addition to the growth of miscellaneous 
farm products, he gratifies his taste for 
rural life by the cultivation of bees and 
fruits. The producf of his hcc hives and 
of his vines and fruit trees are famed for 




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J L JENKINS 



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tbeir excellence in the markets, brand n«:ir. Although past three scores, Mr. < '. .. . k retains 
much of his youthful vigor and activity, and -till delights in the society of the triends and 

acquaintances of former days. He represented Warren county at time in the lower 

house "t the state legislature, where be tm>k :i distinguished part in the advocacj of led 

in. asures of reform in the stab . i specially antagonizing trusts and corporations in tlnir ef- 



forts to oppress the 

I pie. He takes 

a deep interest in 
public affairs and 
posst S8es a r i |> e 
know ledge and ma- 
turity of judgment 
in regard t" all 
economic questions 
now agitating the 
public mind. 1 1' 
bas an ideal borne 
in the 1 1 1 i < I — t of 
lii- orchards and 
groves,and is never 
more bappy than 
w li e n dispensing 
i i - hospitalities. 
The writer has a 
mosl agreeable re- 
collecti »f en- 




joying this 1 1 « » ~ | ► i — 

tality " n in <i r <■ 
than one occasion 
and >>f the pleasant 
hours -["in in the 
society • •! M r. and 
Mi-. < '....k at their 
delightful country 
place. Himself en- 
U ring tin shadow - 
<>f life's evening, 
li e liiall- w i t li 
pleasurable emo- 
tions tin- tender, 
gracious ni - 
these aged |» ople 
a - exhibited i n 
their domestic life 
ami in tlnir treat- 
ment i>t' tin- -tran- 



HON WM COOK 



: in their gab -. 

( Mi. • '. .1. Vanmeter — In making up the record of tin pi ■• r men, who have 

bee Bpicuous in developing tin- commerce on tin t Ireen ami Barren Rivers, nut" limited 

space permits us t ention only a few of these honored names. Manx "l them are at 

rest amidst tin groves and bills of the beautiful Green River country, which was the scene of 
their lid' work ami which thej helped to develop ami make fruitful. A lasting monu- 
ment tn tlnir memory remains in the thriving towns, villages an. I communities which 
their zeal established. A.mong the few survivors of this hardy band i- Capt. C. -I. Van- 
meter. Captain Vanmeter was born in Warrei nty, Cy., in 1826, and bas been 

identified « itli tin- growth ami development of the Gret n River Bection for more than fbrtj 
ll> i- niic nt the oldest navigators "i tin Green ami Barren Rivers now living. 

<';i|>t. Charles \ Everhart i- perhaps tl Ider in years of thi earlj steamboat n 

surviving, but Captain Vanmeter has bad a wider range of experience in tin. ownership nt 
vi-« els mi these \vati i- than any man li\ 'ing. He has taken a d< i p interest all his 1 i t « ■ in 
public improvements, and especially in the improvement of the navigation of tin < In en and 

Barren Rivers. 1 1 • was one of the it rporators and leading spirits in tin organisation "t 

Green and Barren River Navigation Company, and was connected with it- affairs tr..m 

the time the< pany i"»k it- lease from the state in 1868 up tn the time of the transfer of its 

franchise to the general government in l s ^v He is -till the president of the company and 

i- engaged iii winding up it- busim --. The only members of tli mpany now living 

Captain Vanmeter, Capt. C. G. Smallhouse and Capt E B Seeley. Capt Vanmeter ia ■ 



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47 



most exemplary citizen, universally esteemed for the probity of his life and character. He 
is zealous in the promotion of every movement for the advancement of the educational 
interests of the community. At the ad- 



vanced age of seventy-one he is still 
vigorous in body and mind, prose- 
cuting his business affairs with all 
the assiduity that characterized his 
younger days. He takes a lively in- 
terest in all that concerns the public 
and is never backward in his sup- 
port of enterprises for the general good. 
Captain Vanmeter has a pleasant home 
near Bowling Green, where, in the en- 
joyment of a fair competency and 
the society of congenial friends and 
neighbors, he awaits with complacency 
the summons that shall bid him join 
the comrades who have gone before. 

E. E. Hills — Resident manager 
and superintendent of the Bowling 
Green branch of Turner, Day & Wool- 
worths' Handle Factory. The works at 
Bowling Green give employment to 
about two hundred and fifty men and run on an average eight months in the year, 
which they have done for the last five years, turning out one million handles per year. 

The main factory and offices of the 




CAPT C J VANMETER. 




company are 
material used 
is strictly hickory, 
is abundant in tin 



at Louisville. The 
in the manufactory 



which timber 
section. Mr. 



E E HILLS. 



Hills has managed the affairs of the 
factory at this point and has been con- 
nected with it for the past eight years, 
and is a man of practical knowledge in 
the business. Socially, Mr. Hills stands 
very high in the community, and i- 
universally esteemed for many good 
qualities of head and heart. 

Pill, LAUD & IIayhkn, 1'ndei- 
derwriters and dealers in Real Estate 
— The firm of Pollard A' Haydeii 
is one of the most reliable and pro- 
gressive in the Green River section. 
They represent some of the oldest 

and strongest fire insurance m- 

pauies of the country and do a large 



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fire insurance basin Tiny represent the leading lit. insurance company ..f the 

country, and also the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New fork, doing an accident 
business and insuring plate glass and steam boilers, also issuing employers' liability 
insurance and bonds, guaranteeing the fidelity <>f officials and employes. Their real 





THOS POLLARD. 
OP THK FIRM Of POLLARD & HAYDIN 



T E HAYDBN 
or thi riRu or pollard ft haydin 



estate business extends througl i mi.lillc and Southern Kentucky, and they have on ilnir 

books a large amount of farm and <ity property for sale or exchange. Thej solicit oor- 
r. Bpondence in regard to tlii- line ..t their busin 

I'm <'\w Governmeni •.: Bowling Gbeen — Bowling Green has the modern 
form of citj oharter. It is the federal plan upon which tin national government i- con- 
ducted. The executive, judicial and legislative departments are clearly defined. I'll, mayor 
appoints the board ..I public works and -it- a- it- chairman. This board consists -.1 three 
members. The board appoints a superintendent "t' water w>rk-. electric li-lit- an. I 
Btreets an. I city enf ill these positions are at present beld by one man, who performs 

all tli> duties). The) also appoint a health officer, the chief "t the fire department and a 
Btation-houee keeper. The chiel ..I tin- police department ami tin- police force, consisting "t 

four police n, are appointed bj tin' mayor and approved by incil by a two-thirds vote. 

Tin' legislative department i- vested in tin- common council, consisting "t twelve member 8 
who are elected by tin people. The police "r city judge, tin citj clerk ami the city | 
cuting attorne) are also elected by the popular voice. 

I'll, jobbing trade of Bowling Green is yet in it- infamy. There are, however, u\<> 
quite prosperous wholesale grocery establishments doing a \ • rj -at isfactorj ami paj lug busi- 
One industrj "t the citj is deserving of special mention on account ..t it- import- 
ance in creating a home market for bogs fatted in tin county. This is tin' pork packing 
establishment ••! Clay] I a < o This industry was established in 1865, and has trans- 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



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is groundsill the suburbs of the 




acted a large and growing business from the first. The cured meats of this firm have 
a wide-spread reputation for their excellence and flavor. The firm are also extensive buy- 
ers and shippers of live stock generally. 

The Warren County Faiu Association has 
city, reached by elec- 
tric street car lilies. 
These grounds are 
quite ex tensive, cover- 
ing an area of near 
one hundred acres 
and suitably divided 
into various depart- 
ments for the exhi- 
bition of live stock 
and speeding of 
horses. The build- 
ings constructed for 
the purpose of dis- 
playing the different 
products of the county 
are spacious and con- 
veniently arranged 
and on the whole 
every detail is pro- 
vided for conducting a fair. The officers of the association are: J. H.Mallory, president ; 
W. T. Miller, vice president; J. M. Robertson, secretary, and John J. Pence, treasurer. 

In closing this imperfect sketch of Bowling Green the author expresses his regrof 
that the scope and purpose of his work will not admit of a more elaborate description of 
this beautiful little city. Its many institutions that contribute to the comfort, the 
delectation and to the happiness of its people deserve juster praise and a more extended 

notice than it is possible to give 
in the brief glance of the Green 
River country furnished in these 
pages. Its social, its literary, its 
domestic, its inner life upon 
which the superstructure of its 
commerce and business rests, 
have necessarily been left un- 
touched. The short and pleasant 
acquaintance had with a few of 
its citizens and the brief sojourn 
had iii their midst, has served 
to demonstrate that, it time and 
-pace permitted, these features oi 
its inner composition might be 
made of surpassing interest. 



i*m -T-»»l II I (J 



RESIDENCE OF CAPT. C. J. VANMETER 




VIEW AT AIRDRIE, HOME OF GENERAL BUELL 



TICK 0BE1 S RIVER ( .M s I |;v 



WARREN COUNTY. 



JITIII-; tables, exhibiting tbe products of the counties, used in this work, are compiled 

from tin- United States census reports of 1890. This i- the only available roun 
detailed information on tin- subject and, while measurably authentic at thai time, an- only 
festive ..( the vasl capabilities of the country. 

Development and production bave constantly progressed during the Beven years thai 
have elapsed since these statistics were gathered, and it is known thai a- t.. some .>t' the 
items in tin-.- reports there has been an increase •<( more than fifty per cent. 

The increase of tin- c oier n tin- rivers, as Bbown bj tin- government records of 

tonnage ami lockage for tin- year 1896, i- a Bure indication "f increased production. 

These records show thai in tin- item "I live ettock alone, tin- tonnage increased from 
182 tons in I V"> t.. J.:'7" in 1896 — an increa f over • '."" pi r cent 

I'd -ii-ii- reports ^\\<- the total output "f coal in tin- •<• counties at 545,000 tons. 

State mine inspector, C. J. Norwood, reports the output for 1896 at 850,000 tons. 

The toba i <r"|> ..t the t\\" counties of ' mio and Rl uhlenburgb, are reported at 

3,587,000 pounds. Estimates for the year 1896 place the crop of Muhlenburgh alone at 

3,500,000 p 1-. A fraction of this increase in other lines of production would indicate a 

marvelous expansion .>(' products. 

Warren county, of which Bowling Green is the capital, is the tir-t of the series "f 

counties lying directly u| the navigable streams embraced in the Green Etivei system 

nt' slack water navigation. 

Thirtj miles of the system, consisting of the entire navigable portion "f the Barren 
River, lies within the limits •'! the count] and ten miles •■( her northern boundary rests 
upon < iii i-n River. 

8he tlni- has turn miles of the system within her own borders, and such advantaf 
as result fr » I ■ i — method •■!' transportation are enjoyed by her] pie. Besides these navi- 
gable Btreams, tl unty has several other considerable wain- courses, almost wholly 

within her limits, affluents of the Barren River, Buch as Bays Pork, Trammels Pork, Drakes 
( Ireek and < raspar River, which imparl to ii the character of being one "t the best waten il 
counties in the -tat. . 

The county embraces an area of mar -i\ hundred square miles, and contains a popula- 
ti sti mated at thirty-six thousand. 

Warren count) owes her prominence among the counties of the state, chief!] to her 
agricultural resources. To tlii- interest is due the very advanced state .•! her commercial, 
Bocial, educational, religious and civic development, 

The diversity and productiveness of her soils, her peculiarly favored position a- to 
surface formation, climate and water supply have presented such scope t" human effort and 
industry thai a very matured social Btate has resulted, involving all the essentials of wealth, 
culture and refinement, which usually attend these natural gifts. 

A well known writer says of the lands of Warren county: "Without attempting an] 



FROM HOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVII.LE. 51 

geological or scientific terms, it will be sufficient to say that with an underlying limestone 
basis the lands of Warren county are mainly embraced in two classes, designated as "river 
lands" and "barrens." Along the banks of Barren river and its tributaries lie tens of 
thousands of acres of the finest land for agricultural purposes to be found in this or any 
other country. This land was originally heavily timbered with beech, oak, poplar, walnut, 
hickory, sugar maple, ash and other growth. Much of the land on these streams, where 
subject to overflow, has been cultivated for sixty years or more without any effect upon its 
productiveness, while lands in the second bottoms, just above overflow, are almost as inex- 
haustible. The soil is a deep sandy loam, rich from the deposits of forests for hundreds of years. 

The other great body of land is known as "Barrens." This land was originally prairie, 
with here and there a post oak dotting its surface, and in the damper localities fine groves 
of timber. 

Its value was underestimated by the first settlers of the country, who located upon the 
streams iu preference. But practical tests soon proved the mistake of those who preferred 
river lands. The soil is a clay loam varying in depth from six inches to two feet, with a 
red clay subsoil which by exposure to the atmosphere becomes almost as productive as the 
upper soil. The Barrens for wheat are considered better than the river lands and for the 
Green river type of tobacco are unsurpassed. 

In addition to these two classes ot land which constitute perhaps nine-tenths of the soil 
of the county, there is a comparatively small area known as knob land. 

Recent experiments have developed the fact that the table lands found upon the tops 
of these knobs are especially adapted to the growth of fruit. All varieties of fruit trees 
thrive and mature more perfectly there than upon the lower lands." 

Dr. Owen says of these soils in his report on the geological formation of the region: — 
" In the early settlement of Kentucky, the belt of country over which the red clay 
soil extended was shunned and stamped with the appellation of " barrens." This arose 
partly from the numerous schisty masses which encumbered the ground in part, from the 
absence of timber over large tracts and in consequence of the few trees which here and 
there spruug up, being altogether a stunted growth of black-jack, red and white oak.-. The 
value of the red calcareous soil of the "barrens" in 1856 began to be appreciated, so thai 
lauds which previously had been considered not worth locating, in that vear were held at 
from twenty-five dollars to thirty dollars per acre, and in the neighborhood of some towns 
at fifty dollars ; at the present time they are held at from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars." 

This was in 1885. The same lands now may be quoted as held at from $50 to $200 
per acre. 

This wealth of soil and <>f natural endowment has borne legitimate fruit. 

This is evidenced by the highly improved farms, splendid farm residences and build- 
ings and country estates, macadamized and graded roads, schools and churches and the re- 
fined and cultured state of society existing throughout the country. 

The following table taken from the census reports of the government of the United 
States, showing marketed articles, will give some idea of the agricultural products ot War- 
ren count v. 

These statistics were collected by the government in 1890, and arc for the year 1889, 
now eight years ago. Great improvements as to the methods of farming and treatment of 
soil have been made since that time, and it is sate to assume that as to many of the items 
embraced in this report the product has vastly increased. 






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The report gives the number "I farms in cultivation as 2,61 I, ami the &\ 
■ ■! each at 1 L6. 



WARREN COUNTY PRODUCTS. 



I ■Til. 

Wheat, 

\|'p 
I', i. lies, 

lri-l 

" 

Pounds 
Wool, 

lid.' 



Bushels , 

878,160 

1,1 



inds 

ro, 






LIVE STOCK. 

Nil ml-, r 



9 







II. .r- Number . . 

Mules, " 4,019 

Sheep, " ■ . . 1 

43, :\: 

i .ii- 11,841 

( Thickens, Number :"."■ 

Dozens .... 51 

Mi:. Morgan Hughes \ highly intelligent anil progressive farmer and stockman, 
who owns and operates a large farm on the Barren River, near Bowling Green, estimates 
tip- item "t live Block alone marketed in the lasl year, al considerably over a million dollars. 

1 1 i- estimate includes one 
thousand two hundred 
In ail ■■!' export beef cattle 
shipped directly to Eu- 
rope ; "ui- thousand car 
loadsof other cattle, i 
and Bheep : fifty t" -■ \ i n- 
i\ -ti\ e car loads "t com- 
mon w ork mules ami fine 
thoroughbred ho rat b, 
mares and ''"It-, bn d, 
i. at. il ami trained in the 

I'.Miiity.miml" r iiiii-tiina- 

t. d, ofa value amounting 
in many thousands ol dol- 
lars. The count] also 
I-..- • ai and in. 

exhaustible source of wealth in her building b( ■. Dr. Owen Baya "I tlii- stone in tin- first 

Kentucky report: "It i- capable of receiving a g I polish ami producing a white or 

creai lored marble of considerable beauty." 

All tin' eastern ami southeastern part "t tin. count] i- underlaid bj v t. Louis or 
cavernous limestone. It- massivenesa ami thickness render possible such gigantii 
a- tin Mammoth Cave ami innumerable other caves found throughout it- entire extent. 
Towards the upper part of the St. Louis is found tin- Oolitic or fish-roe limestone. The 

beds ui this workable -t white, gray ami blue, occupj a space in the count] "I at least 

fifteen mill- long l>\ -i\ in breadth. Prof. M II Crump, of th< S Geological Survey, 
Bays "I tlii— stone: "The celebrated Bowling Green limestoni abounds in tlii- county, 
where it i- found in ledges o( t wenty-five feel \\ it limit a Beam ; it is a cream colored Oolite, 
dingly durable, and has been worked for more than half a centurj . It covers an an a of 
fifty square miles. It i- large)} used by the general government for postoffice and custom, 
house buildings, and has si I the test of time in a most satisfactory manner. It sella along 




OLD IRON KURNACB ON ORBBN RIVER AIRDRIE IN THE DISTANCE 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 53 

side the well-known [ndiana Oolite and usually for several cents per fool more on account 
of its beautiful color. It is located immediately on l><»tli the railroad and river, hence 
possesses superior facilities for cheap transportation. For architectural purposes this 
admirable stone has do superior. A government test made at the World's Columbian Ex- 
position in 1894 shows that under compression the first crack occurred at a pressure of one 
hundred and seventy-two thousand pounds. The ultimate strength was two hundred and 
nineteen thousand pounds. Weight per cubic foot is one hundred and sixty-eight pounds. 
Amount of carbonate of lime was !)7.(i!l per cent. It produces excellent lime. 

Stratified Oolite — This remarkable stone is found in immense deposits, is being rapidly 
introduced to the notice of architects and builders. The handsome Methodist church of 
Bowling Green, recently erected at a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars, is built entirely 
from the quarries of this excellent material, and such is the facility with which it can he 
quarried and worked that when placed in a building its cost is but little if any more than 
brick. It is also largely used for curbing - and flagging, and for curbing it has been in use 
tin- more than half a century, without the least sign of disintegration." There are a num- 
ber of quarries in operation, notably the McClellan Stone Company, the White Si i < lom- 

pany, the Caden Stone Company, Bowling Green Stone Company, Cohron Oolite Stone 
Company, etc. These quarries have furnished building stone for the erection of important 
public buildings in the cities of Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Newark, N. J., Nashville and 
and Evansville, while the demand for the stone is constantly increasing. 



SMITH'S GROVE. 



This delightful little town is situated in the midst of one of the most fertile sections of 
Warren county, fourteen miles east of Bowling Green, on the line of the Louisville and 
Nashville Railroad. It is in the midst of natural groves and surrounded by a beautiful, 
almost level country in a high state of cultivation. The farms and farm houses indicate 
wealth and prosperity, and the many churches and school houses that dot the landscape 
bear testimony to the moral and educational progress of the people. The population of the 
town is about six hundred. It has natural drainage. An exceedingly orderly state of 
society exists, making it a pleasant place of residence. The business of the place is almost 
entirely local, but it has such a large and productive section of country surrounding it, 
that the volume is very considerable. 

L. D. Rasiiall A- Sun, A. Uasdall and B. S.'EwiNG, carry on general stores. 

J. P. Emberton and L. E. Lyi.es, deal in groceries. 

J. C. Witiierspoox and J. H. Alexander, drugs and medicines. 

The practicing physicians are: Dr. G. T Ewing, T. B. Larue, W. C. Simmons, J. 
Wooten and J. B. Thomas. 

J. L. Wkiciit it Bso. operate a livery and feed stable and run several stages to points 
in the neighborhood. These obliging gentlemen have extensive stables at Second and Main 
streets and transact an extensive business in serving tourists and the business public in the 
way of conveyances to Mammoth Cave and the mineral springs and places of resort in the 
neighborhood. They run a line of conveyance to Brownsville and other points on upper 
Gucen river and throughout the country. 



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I III OREI n RIVER ■ "1 n I l:\ 




hARMBRS DEPOSIT BANK 
BUILT OP WHITS LIMRSTONB OUARRIBD IN THB NBIOHBORROOD 



Smith's Grove has four churchi — Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Christian. 
These churches are all commodious in Bizc and neatlj and comfortably furnished. The 
Methodisl church is buih of white limestone quarried in the neighborhood. 

The Fa i:\ii bb' Bank, 
• Btablished in 1 889, is an in- 
stitution possessing the entire 
confidence of the people of the 
county and section. I t - 
proprietors, the M< -->-. I >avid 
and J. I!. Kirbj , are men of 
sterling character and tried in- 
tegrity, old unci wealthy citi- 
zens of the county and thor- 
oughly idcnti6ed « iili all its 
interests. The bank has re- 
sources according t" its state- 
ment of 1 B97, "t "\ er eighty 
thousand dollars, and a large 
surplus, besides I" ing further 
-i r. ogthi ned by the individual 
wealth <>f its individual own- 
ers, which i- large, in the most valuable real estate in the county and other available 

property. Mr. Jas, FLKirbyis its obliging cashier. The bank receives m j leposit, 

discounts notes, buys and Bells real estate paper, and energetically attends to :ill col- 
lections with which it may be entrusted. 

L. 1 1. Rabdall, Btockman — War- 
ren i nty, in addition to being one of 

the largest stock raising counties in the 
state, enjoys the distinction of pro- 
ducing a class "I saddle and road 
horses that attracts buyers from all sec- 
tions of tin- country. There are a 
number "i farmers aud stockmen \\li" 
make a specialty of breeding and train- 
ing horses foi saddle and driving pur- 
The Bcction of the county about 
Smith's Grove, m very fertile district 
in the eastern portion of the county, is 
quite famous for the number of breeders 
and trainers of this class of stock. Mr. 
I, 1 >. Rasdall, "in- of the principal 
breeders of fine horses in the county, 
lives in the town of Smith's Grove, 
where li>' has training grounds /and 
other conveniences for the care and l d rasdall 




FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVII.I.K. 55 

comfort of his stock. Mr. Rasdall is a native of Warren county, as was also his father, 
Unas Rasdall. His grandfather came to Kentucky in L807 from North Carolina, and 
began farming in the section known as Sinking Creek. 

Mr. Rasdall's father, Urias Rasdall, engaged in the milling business on Sinking Creek, 
but moved to Smith's Grove in 18(55 and engaged in merchandising, in which business he 
continued until his death in 1<S92. Mr. Rasdall began his business life in his father's store, 
acquiring during ten years, a practical knowledge of business affairs. lie owns and controls, 
with his son, Mr. Urias Rumsey Rasdall, at this time, one of the largest general stores in the 
town of Smith's Grove. Mr. Rasdall owns a fine body of rich land, consisting of about 
three hundred and seventy acres, part of which adjoins the town. His yearly sales of pedi- 
greed colts and thoroughbred trotting horses are attended by horsemen from all parts of the 
country and the stock offered by him at these sales will compare with that from anv portion of 
(he state of Kentucky. Mr. Rasdall is also a breeder of fine jack stock and jersey cattle. 
His reputation as a chicken fancier and breeder is widely known throughout the country. 
His poultry stock is noted for its purity and embraces half a dozen or more of 
the best varieties. Mr. Rasdall is a liberal-minded and progressive citizen of his county, 
and takes an interest in all public movements for the advancement of the public good, pos- 
sessing alike the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. 

J. 15. Floyd — County surveyor of Warren county. Mr. Floyd is a native of Warren 
county, and is now forty-four years of age. He is iu the very prime of life and looks a 
much younger man. He was raised on a farm and is a farmer yet, owning and operating a 
fine farm ou Green River, eleven miles from Bowling Green, near Gleumore, the site of the 
new lock on the above-named stream. Mr. Floyd received his education in the common 
schools of the county and at Ogden College. He is a self-made man and owes his position 
to his own force of character, ability and fidelity to the trust reposed in him. His adminis- 
tration of the office which he holds has been so satisfactory to the people of the county that 
he has been renominated for the office without opposition. 



GREEN CASTLE. 



A small town in Warren county fourteen miles below Bowling Green, is situated one- 
half mile below Brown's Lock, on Barren river, and has a population of about 100. There 
is one general store and several shops of various kinds in the place. 






I M i GREEN RIVER COUN1 l:V 



EDMONSON COUNTY. 



Ij'DMONSON ( 'iiiinty lies on upper Green river, which Bows almost centrally through 
x ili' county from east to west. The county was organized in 1825, has an 
ana of four hundred square miles and a population of twelve thousand. The term "Upper 
Green" river is applied t" all that portion of the stream above its juuction \\ itli Barren river 
The comity- of Edmonson i- within the territory which was intended to !>■ benefited by the 
improvement of tin- rivers. Hitherto, however, 1 1 1 * • county has derived little benefit from 
these improvements. 

The slack water obtained by the construction of dam No I fails t" render 1 1 » * - river 
navigable for a sufficient distance t" be of service as a means oi transportation. Hence the 
i my remains in a great measure undeveloped. It is not because ofa lark of natural re- 
sources. The county possesses unlimited beds ol coal and iron, and her forests "I timber 
are almost untouched. Asphalt, brick and potters' clay and a superior marl form a part of 
nature's gifts t" tlii- county. 

The government of the United States is now constructing a dam and lock at the 

present bead of Black watei the river which will secure navigable water well into the 

interior of the comity. Surveys have been made by 1 1 » » - government for still another lock 
sixteen miles above the one now under construction, which, when built will give the 
county water transportation to it- eastern border. The Burface of the county is con- 
siderably broken l>y hills, I >n t on the whole is w< W adapted to the uses of agriculture. The 
bottom lands along the river and creeks are very rich, while the table and ridge lands 
produce well with proper cultivation, and are peculiarly suited to the growth of fruit The 
general character of the count) as to soil and topography i- adapted to the grazing of stock, 
[t is believed and asserted bj those acquainted with the subject, that Edmonson comity 
possesses all the natural requisites to make it the best sheep breeding and sheep grazing 
county in the State of Kentucky. 

The county is well watered by numerous springs and creeks and Bear creek and 

Nolin river are considerable streams. The celebrated Mam tli Cave is in the eastern 

extremity of this county. The I .8. census reports ^\\> the number of farms in Edmonson 
county at thirteen I. mid red ami eight, and the av< rag< acn - one hundred and eighteen. 

EDMONSON COUNTY PRODUCTS. 

i i i \ i \ i ii . i \-i -. 



i orn, Bashela 

•• 
Wheat, 

M'l' 

lrMi Potatoes, 

■ noes, " 
Ponndi 
Bom " 



54,787 
81,1 56 
88,515 

17,468 

- 
10,168 



Wax, Pounda 

Hav, I'cil- 



LIVE STOCK. 



N ii iiiIm r . 

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( In. ken . . . 

i no 

i Soal, Tons, onlj di I 





10,146 


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1,711 








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148,168 



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BROWNSVILLE. 

The county scat of Edmonson county is located about the center ol the county on the 
left bank of Green river, two hundred miles from Evansville by water. It is ten miles 
above the termination of present slack water. It has no transportation facilities other than 
wagon, except at rare intervals when the river is full, a small steamer may visit the town. 
Being thus cut off from communication with the outside world, the town shows little evi- 
dence of improvement. The population is about two hundred and fifty. The town was 
incorporated in 1837, but was laid out some time prior to 1825, when it became the county 
seat on the organization of the county. It has a district school and two churches. The 
court house is a good brick structure containing the county offices. 

The present county officers are: J. C. Dossey, county judge; J. L. Hazelip, county 
attorney; T. J. Woosley, circuit court clerk; Willis Meredith, county court clerk; Wm. 
Sanders, sheriff; Mitchell Vincent, superintendent of schools; James A. Skaggs, jailor. 

The principal merchants are: Woosley, Lay & Davis, dealing in general merchandise 
and produce; Beed & James, also general merchants, and S. T. Brooks, dealer in drugs, 
medicines and variety goods. 

The lawyers are: J. S. Lay, J. L. Hazelip, E. M. Harvey, M M. Logan. 

There are two practicing physicians, Dr. G. W. Arms and Dr. J. W. Morrow. 

There are two hotels. 

The town government is administered by a board of five trustees, police judge, marshal 
and treasurer, who is ex-officio secretary of the town board. 

Upon the completion of the lock and dam now in course of construction below the 
town and the establishment of water communication with the markets of the country, 
Brownsville will become an important center of trade, and the valuable and diversified 
resources of Edmonson county will undergo development. 

Hon. James S. Lav was born in 
Warren county, Kentucky, October 
21st, 1853. He obtained a good English 
education in the common schools and in 
the county academy of his native county. 
He studied law in the office of Hal sail 
A: Mitchell at Bowling Green and was 
admitted to the bar in 1878. In the 
year 1879 he married Miss Louisa 
Francis Lewis, an accomplished young 
lady of Warren county, and soon after 
removed to Brownsville, the county seat 
of Edmonson county, and opened a 
law office, and has established a fine 
practice in the courts of that and 
adjoining counties. In 1882 he was 
elected county attorney for Edmonson 
county ami was re-elected in 1886. He 
has served as chairman of the Demo- 
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HON. J S LAY 



58 THK C.KKK.N RIVER COUNTRY 

cratic county nmittee at different time* :in<l \va- a |>j h >inted and served a- auditor's 

agent for the inty under I..*'. Newman, state auditor. In 1895 be was elected to the 

state -c- N.it i- from the Eleventh senatorial district, composed ■■! the counties of Allen, Edmon- 
son and Warren, which position he now ln»l<i~. In the celebrated struggle for the Doited 
Benatorsbip in the Kentucky legislature in 1896 he wasa firm supporter i" the last 
(if tin I [on. J. 8. Blackburn. 

GLENMORE. 

This is the name ol the landing and post office on the upper waters of Green river, 
twenty-one miles above the junction of Green and Barren rivers. It is an interesting 

pla i account ol the rugged scenery in the neighborfa 1. and from the fad thai it is the 

Bite of lock and dam No. 5, which is in course of construction. This improvement is in 
charge of United States Engineer Win. Ball, a short sketch of whose life is given below. 

Near this place are located b ■ mineral springs remarkable for the virtue of their watt rs 

in the oure "I disease. These Bprings will, no doubt, become a popular resort as well as i 
noted sanitarium. 

Wm. M. Hall — Assistant I 8. engineer in charge ol construction of look and dam 
v I, Green River. Win. M. Mali was born at Fayetteville, Tennessee. Be was partly 
educated at Payette academy in Tennessee, and parti} at the D. 8. militarj academy at 
Wesl Point, New York, but left l>"th institutions before graduation. Hi- first professional 

work, as civil engineer, was in I s>n 1 and 1882 on the oonstructi t the New York terminal 

of the New York, West Shore and Buffalo railroad. Prom there be went, in 1882, to the 
Southern Pennsylvania railroad and was employed upon it- location and construction be- 
tween Barrisburg and Pittsburg as assistant engineer and resident engineer fr l >s . to 

tn 1885. < >n tin- road be had charge of construction amounting to five hundred thousand 
dollars, and was associated in doing thai work \\itli Messrs. Robt II. Sayre, Wm. F. Shunk 
;uii| Oliver W. Barnes, three ol the most distinguished railroad civil engineers oi this coun- 
try. After that work he was engaged in L885 and I s -. as engineer and manager l«>r 

Messrs. O'Brien >V ('lark, i tractors, in charge "I their work on the new Croton aqueduct 

foi \. w York City, on which there were constantly employed from three t" six thousand 
in. ti. Prom 1887 to I s '-' l he was employed by 1 1 » * - Norfolk and Western railroad in Vir- 
ginia, Wesl Virginia and Ohio. While with thai company he was engineer in charge ol 
tin i Btruction "f the westerly half of its Clinch Vallej extension, which meets the Louis- 
ville and Nashville railroad at Norton, Virginia Thai work cost about one and a half 
million dollars. Be was later in charge of the construction of its < > 1 1 i < • extension, one 
hundred and ninetj miles long, from the Pocahontas coal field in Virginia to [ronton, Ohio, 
which work cost about five million dollars. In the fall of 1894 hi was employed by the 
I Inited States engineer officer at < lincinnati, and since has been emploj ed in thai office and 
in charge of constructing the \<><-k cm Bough River, which was completed in L896. Be is 
now in charge ••! construction of lock No. 5, Green River, which has been lately com- 
menced, a notable feature about Rough River lock is thai it is built entirely "t i trete, 

being the fifth concrete lock constructed in the world and the first constructed as ■ river 
luck. Tlic other four are canal locks. Another feature worthy .•( notice i- that the l<><'k, 
dam, abutment, guide cribs and all other auxiliary work oosl only eighty-five t housand 
dollar-. Mr. Hall i- a member of the American societj of <i\il engineers, the leading 
society of the class in the United Stat< .», and al.-o a im-mltcr of the engineer's olub of Cincinnati. 



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59 



BUTLER COUNTY. 



THP] County lying next to Warren on the waters of Green River i.s Butler. Butler 
county was organized in 1810 out of portions of Logan and Ohio counties. It has 
an area of ahout four hundred and fifty square miles and a population estimated at fifteen 
thousand The county is divided into two parts by Green River, which runs through its 
territory about forty miles. The bottom lands are very productive, producing corn and 
tobacco and wheat. It has an inexhaustable supply of coal and timber. The Cincinnati 
Cooperage Co. and the T. J. Moss Tie Company deal in the timber business, buying and 
shipping ties and staves, besides numerous parties are continually buying and running saw 
logs to Evansville and other timber markets. The Aberdeen Coal and Mining Company 
and the West Aberdeen Company arc doing the principal coal business. They own boats 
and barges and mine and tow coal to Bowling Green and other points. There are yet fine 
fields of coal untouched and in abundance with free navigation along Green River, which 
sweeps around the foot of the coal hills for a hundred miles. Rochester and Woodbury are 
two flourishing towns in the county, besides a number of small villages — Brooklyn, Reedy- 
ville, Fileville, Sugar Grove, Huntsville and Forgyville. Rochester is situated at the 
mouth of Mud River and on the bank of Green River and is a thriving commercial point 
nearly as large as Morgantown. The following table shows the marketed products of 
Butler county for 1880 : , 

BUTLER COUNTY PRODUCTS. £t ~X 

Farms, Number 1,907 £*■ \ 

Acreage, " 121 

Livestock, value $470,120 

Value of products $396,(160 g v ' • *^ 

Corn, I'.ushels 653,622 ?» 

Wheat, " 33,810 E| . 

Oats, " 103,166 * , T ft 

Peaches, " 22,723 

Apples, " 122,337 . 

Irish Potatoes, " 20,228 m\Ji 

Sweet I'otatoes, 10,248 ^^^kfll 

Wool, Pounds . . .... 20,068 

Honey, " 10,996 

Tobacco, " 263,632 

LIVE STOCK. 

Horses, Number 3,141 

Mules, " 1,322 

Hogs, " 20,900 

SI p, " 7,9711 

Chickens, " 115,740 

Hay, Tons, 2,906 

Eggs, Dozen, 343,399 DR G H MILLIGAN 

G. II. Milligan, is a distinquished physician of Butler county, located at Round 
Hill and whose practice extends over a portion of Butler, Edmonson, and Warren 








III! GREEN RIVER COUNTRY 



counties. He was born and raised in Warren county, K\.. al Glenmore, rite "t 
the present lock, now being constructed. Be is m graduate of the University ••! 

Louisville, and i- • of the leading and 

progressive men "t the section in which he 
livi •«. Dr. Milligan i- a 111:111 >•! large 
means and wields much influence in the 
aflkirs of the country around and is great- 
ly interested in its development. 

Joe. I '. Tak neb is a native "i 
Butler county. He received In- edu- 
cation in the schools "I !ii> native 
county, and has been identified with 
the people and ilnir interests since man- 
hood. He is the present circuit court < - I"tI< 
..I the county, i" which office he was elec- 
ted in 1896 Mir. Tanner i~ a gentleman 
who stands high in th< ■ •!' the 

people of lii- county, who have ohosen 
him to serve them in one "t 1 1 • « - most 
important offices in their gift. Personally 
Mr. Tanner is a gentleman "t | • l« :i ~;i 1 1 1 

111:11 r and agreeable presence. Hi- 

moral worth :m<l integrity of character 

has endeared him to lii- associates and these qualities will -till carry him on to 

further eminence among lii- fellow citi» db. 




JOB D TANNER CIRCUIT COURT CLBRK 



MORGANTOWN. 

Morgantown, the county seat <>f Butler county, is situated on the left bank of Green 
one hundred and Bixty-five miles above its mouth. The count] 
was located b( re Boon 
after its organisation in 
1810. The population "t 
Morgantown is about 
urn' thousand. 

It has m flourishing 
trade with :i large extent 
hi country mi both Bides 
"t the river and is the 
-lii|>|iin'_' and principal 
trading point for a num- 
ber of interior towns 
and villages. I fader the 
local option law "I the 
Blate saloons are ex- 

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LANDINO AT UOROANTOWN 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



61 



There arc a number of general stores and shops and the business men and merchants 
of the place are active and enterprising. The town has three churches and one seminary of 
learning, at which tuition is free for a period of five months in the year. The Morgan- 
town Deposit Bank, located here, has a large patronage throughout the county. 

The general moral tone of the town is excellent and a Onion Sunday school conducted 
under the supcrintendency of Mr. John M. Carson, assisted by a devoted corps of teachers 
is one of the most flourishing on Green River. 

The Green River Republican, published by H. B. Morehead, Esq., an all home print 
paper and the only newspaper published in Butler county, is published here. 

The industries consist of one large roller flouring mill, a marble shop, saddlery shop 
ami two livery stables. 

There arc four physicians and six lawyers. 

Mr. W. A. Het.m, of Morgantown, Ivy., is one of the most prominent lawyers of the 
Green River country, being the oldest practicing lawyer at the Morgantown bar. He is 
forty years ot age, and has been reasonably 
successful in business. In 1894 he was a 
formidable candidate for the Democratic 
nomination tor Congress in the Third district 
of Kentucky. In 1806 he took the stump 
tor Win. J. Bryan for president, and has 
been more or less active in politics for 
many years. He was a delegate from his 
district to the Democratic National Con- 
vention in 1892, and refused to vote for the 
nomination of Mr. Cleveland. He has been 
for many years a director and attorney for 
the MorgantowD Deposit Bank. 

The Morgantown Seminary, con- 
ducted by the Messrs. Turner and Glasgow, 
is an educational establishment that docs 
great credit to the great enterprise of its 
founders. These two young men are ex- 
ceedingly well fitted for the task which 
they have undertaken, being possessed of 
exceptional educational attainments and 

social qualifications. The school under their management is destined to become an impor- 
tant factor in the progress and developement of the county. 

The new Baptist Church in course of construction, will, when completed, be one ofthe 
most attractive church edifices on Green River. It is built of brick, and the auditorium, 
pulpit and interior work are in hardwood finish, making a most beautiful appearance. 

The people of Morgantown arc noted for sociabilty and those qualities which tend to 
make social life pleasant and agreeable. There is no place on Green River where Sabbath 
observance is more strictly maintained than here. The Sunday schools and churches are 
Sabbath institutions that claim the attention of the people on the holy day. 




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JUDGE W A. HELM. 
is destined to become an 



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THE OBI EJi RIVI B I "I N TRY 




Speed Guffy, attorney al law, is a native <>t Butler ooonty, Kv. lie- was educated in 

the common Bcbools "t the mty. and 

graduated at tip Morgaotown Beminary. 
He studied law with lii- father, I'.. L 1 '. 
Guffy, at present one ol the judges of the 
Kentucky court •>) appeals, and «;i» ad- 
mitted to 1 1 ■< - l>ar in 1889, engaging in a 
lucrative practice in his native and sur- 
rounding counties. Mr. Guffy stands in 
tin' front rank ol the legal profession in 
the state. 

M.i i un I iyloh i- one of the lead- 
ing attorneys of Butler county, hie residence 
being al Morgautown. Il< is a nativcut' 
the county, ami received hia education in 
tin- public schools ami at Auburn college. 
After completing his education he applied 
himeell !•> the study "f tin- law, ami was 
admitted t" practice in 1890. V- a lawyer 
Mr. Taylor stands high in tin- profession, 
ami is noted for his broad ami comprehen- 
col spbbd gdfpy B j ve knowledge "t tin- law in all its 

branches. Mr. Taylor is tin presenl master commissioner <>f tin Butler circuit court, the 

duties "I which position In is specially qualified t" fulfill, on aot nt oi lii- familiarity 

with legal proceedings and lii- ready un- 
derstanding of legal issues involv- 
ing important interests. In politics 
Mr. Taylor is a Democrat ami has 
always taken a verj prominent part in 
the councils and deliberations oi lii- party. 
Ili- activity in tlii- regard has com- 
mended lii in t" tin- members of his 
party in bo Btrong a manner that In 1 has 
at different times been urged to accept 
nominations for important offices in the 
gift i.t tin- people. In 1897 In- was pre- 
vailed ii|iini in accept tin- nomination for 
couut) attorney mi tin; Democratic 

ticket, ami altl gh defeated at the 

polls, such was lii- popularity ami ac- 
tivity in tin- canvass, that tin- usual ma- 
jority "t tin- opposition was re- 
duced very nearlj one-half. It ma) 
be said to the credit • ■( McClain Taylor 
that a- a partisan In i« devoid of acri- 
monioos feelings ami treats lii- oppo- 




McCLAIN TAYLOR. ATTORNEY AT LAW 



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63 




nents with the most uniform courtesy and consideration. As a public servant he has 
always illustrated the character of oue who realized his obligation to those whom he 
served, discharging his duties with 
fidelity and scrupulous regard for the in- 
terests of the people. 

A. H. TtTCK — Is a native of But- 
ler county. He was born and raised 
on a farm a few miles from Morgan- 
town, the county seat. He received 
his education in the common schools 
of the county and took a teacher's 
course in the Morgantown Normal 
college. In 1887 he was appointed 
chief deputy in the office of the county 
court clerk, which position he still 
occupies. Mr. Tuck is a young man of 
splendid business qualifications, excel- 
lent moral character and occupies a high 
social position among the people of his 
town and county. 

Dr. E. A. Cherry — In the pro- 
fession of medicine and surgery the 
people of Morgautown aud Butler 
county are especially fortunate in having the services of a man who is so highly gifted, both 
by natural and professional attainments as is Dr. E. A. Cherry. Dr. Cherry stands at the head 

of his profession in this section aud is 
frequently called into consultation in criti- 
cal cases far outside his own field of 
practice. He has performed with great 
success many surgical operations. Dr. 
Cherry is a native of Warren county, 
Kentucky, that has produced so many 
men of note scattered throughout the 
Green River country. He graduated in 
medicine at the university of Louisville, 
medical department, in the class of 1890. 
He is a post graduate of the New York 
Polyclinic institute, at which institution 
lie took a thorough and complete course 
in 1896. He located at Morgantown in 
1892, where he has built up a remark- 
able practice in both branches of his 
profession. He has made a special study 
of surgery, to which branch he pays 
dr E a cherry special attention. Dr. Cherry is ex- 



COL. A H. TUCK 




64 



I III OREEN KlVh R COCN [ RY 



tremely ><><ial id disposition, and though a very busy man, finds time t.> take ;i prominenl 
part iii the Booial life <>t his town. Be i- a strong democrat and an a§ "in- 

luit never allows politics t<> interfere'with his 
professional duties. In all matters pertaining 
to the public in ten ste ■ ■( his town and count] 
he is : i ti active worker. 







The Morgahtowb Deposii 1'.\nk — 
'l"lii- bank was organized under Bpecial 
charter of the state in 1880. It has an 
authorized capital "I one hundred thousand 
dollars, a paid up capital of fifty thousand 
dollars and a surplus "f fourteen thousand 
dollars. It- first president was I ( 
Carson, and its first cashier was Jeromi I 

M ■'-. Binoe deceased. It- present officers 

are: T. C. Carson, president, and -I > >li 1 1 M 

Carson, cashier. The bank transacts a large 

f 

business in ilii- section in deposits and ex- 
changes and in making investments t"r its 
patrons, and enjoys the confidence of the people 
"•^■■w at home and abroad. Mr. Carson, the cashier, 
— HHaH^ali^iVHH - - - ._..--» j« prominent in the business affairs "l liU 

moroantown dbposit i town and county ami takes great interest in 

promoting the cause "I education and in the work of the church and Sim, lav schools, and 
altogether, is a type ol the reliable Christian gentleman. 

M Rs. .1. I >. Rem deb, « hose portrait 
appears herein, istbewifeof Mr. J. D. 
Render, a member of the Aberdeen Coal 
ami Mining Company, and ii- efficient 
general superintendent. Mrs. Render is 
a lady of fine presence and high mental 
attainments. Although extremely de- 
voted i" the circle "I her borne and the 
care and education "I the children >>t her 
household, she yel finds time to dis- 
charge all the duties she owes !•■ society, 
of which -li>' is an acknowledged leader. 
Willi her, however, home is her first 
care, and her affections are centered upon 
those who are closelj connected t" her. 
Masti i < llaron Render is a youth <>i much 
promise — bright and active in tempera- 
ment ami studious in habit 1 1< is 
Btrongl) attached to Iii- parents and in- 
herits many of their sterling qualities, MRS j. D rbndkr and mastbr claron rkndbr 



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65 



ABERDEEN. 



SITE OF THE ABERDEEN COAL AND MINING COMPANY'S COAL MINING PLANT. 



The town of Aberdeen is located on the property of the Aberdeen Coal and Mining 
Company, 163 miles above Evansville, and thirty-seven below Bowling Green. The popu- 
lation is principally composed of the employees of the mines. The buildings of the town 
consist for the most part of comfortable cottages, with gardens attached, which the em- 
ployees occupy at a nominal rent. 

Schools and a house of worship are maintained and many artisans and farmers owning 
farms in the neighborhood, are settling in the town, the population of which is thus fast in- 
creasing. The Aberdeen Coal and Mining Company own and operate a large store here, 
doing an extensive business in general merchandise and handling the produce of the country 
around. There is no more important, available nor widely distributed element of wealth in the 
(irecn River valley than her great coal deposits. Her resources in this line in their im- 
portance and value equal that of any other territory in the world. She has within her 
boundaries as fine coal as ever was taken from the ground — equal in every way, either as a 
gas, coking or blacksmithing coal, to that of the finest Pittsburgh. Very little develop- 
ment has yet been made, and this in a great measure can be accounted for by the fact that 
the locks in Green River are too small to make the transportation of this great natural de- 
posit by water profitable. The increase in the size of these locks is considered 
at length under another head in this publication, and we do not care, in this artiele, which 
is intended to show up the importance of the Aberdeen Coal and Mining Company, to go 
into the question to any'great extent. But it is a matter that must sooner or later be taken 
up by the government and adjusted. No firm in the valley are pushing on their work, or 
doing more to place before the public the superiority of the coal mined in this section than 
is this company, which was organized in 1890. The company holds sixteen hundred acres 
of land and are opera- 
ting a drift mine — 
working vein No. 3. 
Employment is given 
to two hundred min- 
ers, and the company 
operates two tow 
boats, the J. T. Carson 
and I. X. Hook, and 
twenty barges. Be- 
sides the in i n i n g 
business the com- 
pany is engaged in 
the cross-tie trade, 
getting out about 
4,000,000 cross-t i e s THE Aberdeen coal and mining company s mine opening and miners. 





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anally. They own timber ri^lii- on twelve thousand acres ••! land on the upper Green 
River — but they also bave agents established :it Henderson, Kentucky, Mi. Vernon and 

Bvansvilh . I odiana Tin- officers of tin- 
company are: I. B. Wilford, president, 
and J. 1>. Bender, general superintend- 
ent Mr. I. I!. Wilford 's office is in 
Bowling Green, and here, his bod, II. M. 
Wilford, attends t" the local trade for 
the company. I. B. Wilford was born 
and reared in <:nli/. Kentucky, and 
began lit' .1- a merchant. In 1870 he 
went into the flouring mill business, and 
since then has built and operated mills 

In that city, and has recently 1 pleted 

ami bas now in operation a mill at 
Henderson, Kentucky. He came t" 
Bowling Green in 1885, and in the fall 
.•t 1893 I l;Iii an interest in the Aber- 
deen Coal and Mining Co The mem- 
bers "! the companj each invested in 
Aberdeen, Kentucky, over five thousand 
dollars, and are building a town at that 

I B WILFORD. . .. 

PRIS ABIRD«INC0AL*MIN.NOC0.Ri3ID«IICI.B0WUllO ORMN P>«* ,ll; " I"'"''"-" "' tllC IK a r tlll.liv |,, 

be a thriving little city. Mr. Wilford 
owns a magnificent bome in Bowling Green ami holds a large interest in asphalt land-. 
which he is oow interested in having devel- 
op .1 Ilr i- public spirited and is and 
bas been interested in many enterprises in 
B ling Green and throughout Kentucky, 
In the fall of 1892 he built the Wilford 
building "ii Park Bow— a magnificent 
stone structure three stories lii^li — the fines! 
building in the city. 

J. I ». Bender was born and reared in 

Butler 1 nty, and for a number of years 

clerked for both tli< iirts of that county. 

II. u:i- > of the original organizers ol the 

Aberdeen Coal and Mining C pany, and 

much "l tli«' prosperit} that ban attended 
the company \>:t- been due t" his exertions. 
He has at all times been thorough!} alive 
to the mining interests in 1 1 » i — section, and 
i« pushing forward with that untiring seal 
that make- success an absolute certainty. 

R M Wilford, Jr., one oi the Brm, 
was l>'>rn in < ladiz, Kentucky . and has been 

v M II 

Trump, au'l»rtlrl' J. Norwood. 






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J D RKNDBR 

OKNIRAL 81JPBRINTINDINT ABIRDUN COAL * MJNIHO CO . 

RBSIUINCI UOROANTOWN 



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recently admitted to partnership in the company. The Aberdeen Coal and Mining Company 
is doing more to develop the resources of the Green River valley than is any other institution. 
Messrs. Wilford and Render are live and energetic business men and deserve much credit 
for their success. The coal they take out, as said before, is equal to any mine on earth- 
Their supply is unlimited. The field in which they are operating is bound to become in a 
few years the source of fuel supply, both for us and the land to the south and west of us. 
The capacity of this mine is one million bushels per annum. The main office of the company is 
at Morgantown, Kentucky. The analysis of the Aberdeen coal shows the following elements 

ANALYSIS. 



Coal, per ct. Coke, perct. 

Water 6 40 20 

Volatile matter 44 61 1 80 

Fixed carbon 44 51 93 78 



Sulphur 
Ash . 



Coal, perct. Coke, per ct. 

68 .'.'.' 

3 su 3 68 

J. S. Cahy, Dept < hem. W. C. Ex. 




ROCHESTER. 

THIS enterprising little city is situated at lock number three on Green River, one 
hundred and twenty-six miles above Evansville by water. Mud River, one of the 
principal affluents of Green River, enters the latter stream a short distance below the town, 
and separates it from the hamlet of Skylesville on the opposite side. Rochester is sur- 
rounded by a good 
farming count r y 
adapted to the growth 
of cereals, grass and 
tobacco. The bottom 
lands of the Green 
and Mud rivers ad- 
jacent are specially 
noted for their fertil- 
ity, producing abund- 
ant crops of corn, oats ""^| Jg^ ' '.-, 
and grass. 

The population of Roch- 
ester is about one thousand, 
including the hamlets of 
Skylesville and McCrearysville. The 
town was settled in about the year 
1837. Since its first settlement the 
town has been noted as an important 
trading and shipping point, during its 
entire history, having been the center of a 
heavy timber business, as well as the market 
for a large extent of country on both sides of the 
river. The merchants and business men of the town 
arc active and enterprising, and are entitled to special 
mention on account of the order and neatness in which 

VIEW OP LOCK AND DAM AT ROCHESTER 
AND STEAMER GAYOSO. OF E 0. & G. R. TRANS. CO 




68 



I HI 0KK1 n RIV1 l: ...INI RY 



their places <>( business an- kepi The merchants "t tin- place dealing in general 
merchandise are: <iil>l>- Bros, and James, also operating a large store at Rookport; 
Kinninmonth Bros, and Bays Bros Those dealing in special lines are: L 

a Co., dry g I- and clothing; Pool Bros, ancl II. I' Buggers, groceries; •'. D. 

Smith, drugs and staple groceries; Strother Bros., drugs; Mi-- Maj and Lizzie Willi>, 
millinerj ; Mi- Oma Ewing, drees making. There are two hotels, two livery stables and 

> flouring mill. The physiciaus ol the town an- l>r. W. C. Strother, W. C. Hunt and 

\\ P. Westerfield. 




INTERIOR OP OIBBS BROS A JAMES STORE. R" 



The Methodisl and Christian denominations have each aeon lions church building. 

The Baptists have i flourishing i gregation, bul ti" bouse "I worship. Judge L J. 

Gillett, Magistrate and Police Judge, holds the scales ol justict at the town hall, ami see* 
that the town ordinances are mithfull) observed, while Mr. I V Belcher, City Attorney, 
prosecutes with teal and fervor all violators of the public order. 

< me of the chief matters "I interest in Rochester is it- public school, open ten months 
in the Mar. The school building is commodious and well adapted to the needs ol the 
town. It includes a 1 1 inK School, grammar and primary department, all of which are 
provided with the necessary apparatus for effective teaching. The school is in cbarg 
Prof. \ I Groves, principal, assisted bj competent teachers in each department. 



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69 








Prof. X. T. Groves, of the Rochester schools, is of Welsh descent, and has 
inherited from his sturdy fore-fathers the positiveness of character and thai sense 

of the importance of detail, which are 
indispensible in the qualifications of the 

instructor of youth. Although still 
under sixty he has been a teacher thirty 
nine years, always earning and eliciting 
the commendations of the patrons of the 
institutions in which he has taught. He 
has taught in the schools of Keokuk, 
Iowa, Walla Walla, Washington, Tell 
City and Newburgh, Indiana, Stephens- 
port, Kentucky, and San Francisco, Cal- 
ifornia. He was called to the school at 
Rochester in 1<S!)4. During the three 
years he has been at the head of the 
school he has literally formed the school 
and made it the pride and the boast of 
the town of Rochester and the model in- 
stitution for all the surrounding country. 
Prof. Groves is one of the most compe- 
tent instructors in the whole Green 
River section. He is not alone an edu- 
cator, but a trainer, a builder of charac- 
ter as well. He looks after the morals 
and manners of his pupils, training them to habits of truthfulness, moral worth, orderli- 
ness and cleanliness. His school and recitation rooms are models of cleanliness and order 
even the vestibules of the various rooms, which are used as hat and cloak depositories, are 
kept in scrupulous order and neatness. The rule in fact, seems to be, throughout the en- 
tire building, grounds and environment : "A place for everything and everything in its 
place." Prof. Groves is doing a noble work for Rochester, and in fact for the counties 
which border the river, and it should be, and no doubt is, a source of gratification to him 
to know that his work is appreciated by its beneficiaries 

GlBBS BliOS. & Jamks — One of the most enterprising firms of the entire Green River 
section is that of Gibbs Bros. & James. L. and D. Gibbsare natives of Muhlenburgh county, 

and have been in business on Green River since 1885, a period of thirteen years. They first 
opened a store at Rock port, Ohio county, where they transacted a large business in general 
merchandise until 1892 when they sold out. In the spring of that year they established a 
business at Rochester, associating with themselves Mr. P. W. .lames, of Louisville, under the 
firm name of Gibbs Bros.<& .lames. In 1895 the brothers reopened their store in Rockport, 
under the firm name of Gibbs Bros. & Co., Mr. D. Gibbs taking charge and managing the 
enterprise, Mr. L. <iil>l>s remaining in charge of the business at Rochester. Both of these 
establishments do a very large business, and it may be safely predicted that their volume 
will not grow less, under the fine business tact of the (lihlis Brothers. 

W. C. Strotheb, M. I). — The physician- of the Green River section will c ipare favor- 
ably in attainments and professional ability with these of any portion of Kentucky. There 



PROP. N T. GROVES 



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have been some eminent men in 1 1 ■ « - dioal profession, who have lived and made their 

homes on < Ireen River. The town of Rochesb r has had and n«>w baa its quota of nun of 

i hi- character. Among others «<■ menti special!) Dr. \V. C. Btrother, a young | >li \ ~i< i:m 

who enjoys a reputation for ability in the 

l>r:ici ii-. ..t i licine eqoal to anj of the 

younger members of the profession and 
who is scarely second to those who have 
been a life-time in the practice. Dr. 
Strother was born in Rochester, Butler 
county, April 25, 1 s 7n. and received his 
primary school training in the common 

boI I- of the county, and attended t li<- 

National Normal University of Lebanon, 
Ohio, for a period <•(' two years. \\ 1 1 i 1 • • 
-• curing his education, the doctor taught in 
the schools of bis Dative town !>>ni 
sions, acquitting himself in this capacity to 

the satisfacti f his fellow citizens. Hi 

graduated from the Louisville Medical 
( lollegi . class of 1 S '-'T. after attending three 

full irses and began the practice in his 

native town the same year, entering at once 

upon a successful and remunerative busi- 

dr w c strothbr Qess. Dr.W. C Btrother is tin son oi Dr. 

.1. 1\ Btrother, one >>t tin- most prominent phj Bicians of Butler county, who was a successful 

practitioner for more than forty years. He died -Inly 16, 1893, universally regretted by 

the entire oo tunity in which he -pint a 

Useful ami helpful life. 

W. Fred Lox< — Among the many 
prominent ami promising young men of the 
Green River country none stand higher 
ami ale more deserved!} popular than he 
whose picture we here present ami whose 
biography we write. He is known, hon- 

on 'I ami l"\ ill by all ami his face i~ 

familiar in all western Kentucky. Mr. 
Long was born just across Mud river, in 
Bkylesville.Jnlj 13,1864. His father.Major 
\V. .1. I ."ii;:. 8r. is one of the oldest and most 
dearly beloved men of Butler county, 
II' married Miss Martha V. Askew, 
daughter "t Ri \ < Ihildi rs lsk< « . one 
ul the pioneer Methodist preachers in 
Kentuoky, in 1858. rwo children were the 
fruits of this union, Mi-- Effie, one of 
the prettiest, brightest ami most intellectual 




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71 



young ladies of the Green River section, and W. Fred, the subject ol this sketch. Uncle 
Jack Long, as lie is familiarly known by his host of friends, emigrated from Virginia and 
settled in Butler county in 1855, where he was prosperous in his undertakings, and was 
engaged in fanning. In 1861, when the war dogs began to hay, when President Lincoln 
issued his first call for volunteers, Uncle Jack laid down his personal interests and went 
forth to defend his country. He enlisted in Company K, Eleventh Kentucky Volunteer 
Infantry and served as first and second lieutenant for three years and three months, was 
honorably discharged, came home, raised a battalion of state troops and was appointed major 
commanding the barracks at Bowling Green. When the war closed he moved to St. Clair 
county, 111., where W. Fred, was graduated in the public schools, and in 1880 he entered a 
commercial college, being awarded a diploma after a few months of close application. He 
learned telegraphy, and was for thirteen years employed by the following railroads: Ohio 
& Mississippi, Newport News & Mississippi Valley, Mobile & Ohio, St. Louis Iron Moun- 
tain & Southern and Ohio Valley as agent and operator, having charge of the principal 
stations, such as Beaver Dam and Uuiontown, Ky.; Lebanon and East St. Louis, 111.; 
Dyersburg and Memphis, Tenn.; Bald Knob and Beebe, Ark. In 1895 Mr. Long retired 
from the railroad service to occupy a more lucrative and responsible position with the 
National Building and Loan Association of Louisville, Ky., the largest financial institution 
of the kind in this part of the United States, as special agent for Kentucky. Mr. Long was 
married to Miss Lena Rivers Hays, oldest daughter of Mr. James R. Hays, at Rochester, 
Ky., May 27, 1884. This union was blessed with five children — Joseph E., Josephine 
Pearl, Viola and Marguerette. Mrs. Long died in 1891, and Mr. Long was again married 
to Miss Ella Butterworth Smith, daughter of R. N. Butterworth, of Dyersburg, Tenn., 
April 11, 1893. Mr. Long's second marriage has been blessed by the birth of one daugh- 
ter, Miss Mary J., a bright and lovable child. Mr. Long is an active Christian worker, 
taking great interest in Sunday school and Epworth League work. . He is a member ot the 
Board ot Stewards of the M. E. church, South, at Rochester. He is also a member ot the 
Masonic, Odd Fellows, 
and Golden Cross socie- 
ties,and is well-known as 
a republican, well posted 
in the affairs of state and 
nation. 



WOODBURY. 

The town of Wood- 
bury is in Butler county, 
and is situated at the 
junction ot Green and 
Barren Rivers, one hun- 
dred and seventy miles 
above the month of 
( ireen River. Lock No. 
4 on Green River is lo- 
cated here. The town 




FERRY AT ROCHESTER. 



12 I in GREI N i;i\ i i: ■••iNi ky 

has a population of t \\ < > hundred souls. There are two general stores < !■ »i n ^ :i considerable 

business in dealing in domestic - Is and farm produo I II Meek, the largest dealer 

in bis line, lias been in business here fourteen years. M. W. Kuykendall, general mer- 
eliaul and druggist, also carries an extensive stock. There are two grocer) stores, a livery 
Btable and tw> hotels. There is one church building occupied by Methodist and Baptist 

congregations. W Ibury i~ tin- shipping point for Sugar Tree Grove, a trading point 

eight miles inland. 

HUNTSVILLE 

I- In Butler county, and is Bituated about four miles inland From Rochester, which is its 
shipping point. The population is about two hundred and fifty. It has two churc 
Methodist and Baptist— and a free district Bchool. Huntsville is well located and enjoys a 
thriving business in the midst ol a productive section of the country. The merchants of 
the place are: Hunt & Bro., general merchants; B. A. Vaughan, dealer in hardware, 
groceries and furniture; A. T. Gardner and J. Hunt A Bro., groceries. 



MUHLENBURGH COUNTY 



I IKS,, n the lift bank "f Green River, next below Butler and opposite <>lii,. county. 
^ I'll, count] «:i- organized in 1798 and has an aria ol about five hundred and eighty 
square miles. It- population is about nineteen thousand. Tin- topographical aspect of the 

county i nsiderably diversified. The southern part of tin- county i- broken. Along the 

Green River tin ground i> broken up by liill- and ridges, with small valleys between fnrm- 

iiii: | kit- <>r small 

tracts nl' level land, rich 
from tin- washings of the 
higher ground. The 
uplands are undulating 
ami liable to « a s h. 
a bout one-half t li <■ 
county i- level land 
ami adapted to i I , 

growth "I -lain, grass 

and tobacco, ' Quantities 
■ •I tin- finest timber -till 

remain unt shed in this 

county and main mills 
and w I- working in- 
dustries arc -,'• king 
location along tin lines river bntrancb to airdrib 




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73 





mm*£ ton ;5*^h&S5S£ 

AIRDRIE, RUSTIC BRIDGE. VIEW FROM RIVER ENTRANCE. 



of railroads in the county on account of the timber supply. A considerable traffic ;it 

present consists in the shipment of staves and hoop-poles to eastern markets. 

Along Green River, about three miles inland, is a large tract called Cypress Swamp. 
This is covered with a growth of cypress, ash, red oak, white oak and catalpa. Thecypress 
trees are very large and 
a considerable industry 
is maintained by the 
manufacture of hand- 
made cypress shingles. 
The country is watered 
by numerous creeks and 
branches. The princi- 
ple of these are Pond 
('reek, Long Creek, Big 
and Little Caney, Cliffly, 
Rock, Giles and Cypress. 
The chief agricultural 
product of the county is 
tobacco, the crop of 
189(5 reaching three and 
a halt millions of pounds. 
The growth of other 
crops is receiving atten- 
tion as is shown by the table of products taken from the United States census reports. Wheat, 
corn, oats, grass and vegetables are produced and their production is increasing as the 
country develops, and is brought into connection with outside markets. Stock breeding and 

grazing is receiving 
more attention in recent 
years and numbers of 
beef cattle and fat hogs 
are exported annually. 
There are large quanti- 
ties of iron ore in the 
county. Works for its 
conversion were at one 
time established at Par- 
adise, on Green River, 
and at Iron Mountain, 
near Greenville, but for 
lack of transportation 
facilities were aban- 
doned. With the in- 
creased facilities for 
transportation now] being inaugurated, both by rail 'and river, this industry will no 
doubt be revived. Muhlenburgh stands fifth in the state in coal production. The 
output as given bv census reports of 1890, was nearly two hundred and seven thous- 
6 




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71 



I III ■.!:! I N RIVER 0OU.V1 RY 



ami tons. The report ■>! C J. Horn I. state mine inap vet the output for 1896 al 

iwu hundred and fifty-six thousand t<>n«. an increase of I" per cent. There an • ii'ln mines 
in operation. The most extensive is the Central, located al Central City, the property of 
the Central Coal and I run Company, a( the junction of the 1 1 1 i » i < . i — ( !entral and the < twens- 
boro and Nashville division "I the Louisville and Nashville railroad. The other mines an 
the Powderly, near Greenville on the Illinois Central railroad; Hillside, al Mercer station, 
game railroad ; Memphis mine, al Bevier, on the Owensboro and Nashville division of the 
Louisville and Nashville railroad j Silver Creek, al Sterling, on the same railroad; Mud 
River, on the same division; Pierce, al Drakeaboro, on tame division, and Paradise <'n 
< •> ■ ■ n River. Census reports give number of farms in the count} al two thousand and fifty- 
-. v. M ami avi of ( a.ii al one hundred and thirteen. 

MUHLENBURGH COUNTY PRODUCTS. 

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OnUi. 

Whi 

Irinll I'lltlltllfn 

" 
Violin, " 

r. it '• 

mdi 
Wool, 

II 



ICTS. 




Poandi 


MM 




ii, 






1 
000 




LIVE STOCK. 




94 ' 




NiiinUr 


8,110 


II 


M.il. -. 


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GREENVILLE 

The county Baal of Muhlenburgh inty, is located aboul the center -•! the count] . on 

the Illinois Central railroad, ten miles in la ml U Green River. The town was located in 

1799, -""ii after the organisation "i the county. The population is fifteen hundred. The 
situation oi the town is high and conducive to healthfulnei G enville's sooietj is of a 

stable character and marked by 
thai degn e "i refinement and 
culture usually found in Ken- 
tucky oounty ton as, « bile the 
religious and educational in- 
ii rests of ili' community an well 
conserved. Then an four 
liriik church buildings, all sup- 
ported by flourishing congn 
tions. Tin s !• pre* nl the Meth- 
odist, Bouth; ili' Presb) U i ian, 
8 iili; the Baptist and the < Cum- 
berland Pn tbj t-rian. Then 
also tw lored churches, tin- 
Mil' an M< tli'"li-t and Baptist. 

The sol I- are carried "ii in thi 

large colli x<- buildings in the 
ii a church » " r " -" l ""■ , '-■ ; ""' thesyatem 




rROM now 1 .1 N i ; i.ki:i n i" i \ v NH\ 1 1 I I 






is thai of the graded order, beginning with the prlmnr) and endlii|i with ii" 

aoadomio or scientific course, On the omnpus grounds "i tin- college ' mu l« I i i 

well arrangod and oapaoioui building For the hoc idal i honrdlnu. piipl I I he 

building is fitted for the aoooinmodation of one hundred pupil The lndii I i 

Greenville are quite extensive in the lino of special production llieri an low 

faotories engaged in the handling "l tobnooo, all owned and managed bj nntlvi ol < 1 1 ■• 

cm hi nl \ . TIicmc rsi;ilili.'.liini'iii :Ji "il> I i two third i" three quartci "i the 

tobaooo oropof i In' oounty. A siderable proportion "I I he | luol I "> liiel I Into 

chewing tobaooo, known in o moroo as " Uroonvillo tobai /'mid sold all ovei 1 I" south 

: 1 1 1 < I west. Am showing the magnitude "i the tobi Interesl of the county, wi note In uddl 

tion i" those mentioned abovo, a largo factor) al Carles, operated bj l>' Martini Uro,, 

i, ing and makinu strips and handling from live to nine hundred thoiisaiid pounds 

annually! one onoh at Paradise, Hon tli Carroll ton mid Hkylesvlllo, on (ireon River, all nl 

which handle a porl ion of I he orop, 

< >i her indusl ries are a planing mill, 

Hon ring mill and handle laotorj 

There air i\\" large general iton 

carrying stooks "i from nfto< n i" 

i « ! ni \ i hou ami dollar ■ eooh , four dry 

goods ami clot liiiic store , fow I Ij 

grooeries, three drug stores, three 
millinery stores, i wo Im nil me dialrr 
Mini undertakers, i lirou Mail, mil li 
shops, two hardware and agricultural 
implemcnl stores, two saddlery and 
harness mIoith, two shoe mIiu'ch, two 
ii i;iu i :i nl,, one hotel , i ivo htitchci 
hIiii|> , urn' tailor hop ami um- liver) 

table 

'I'll I, I' I I: I \ A I I'iNA I. I'. i 

nl (Jrecuvil le is local ed i ti a very 

handsome new brick building on thi 

oorner of the public quart;, The bank wos organized \uyu t 1st, I 100 ii napltul 

iH fifty thou ami dollar , and il urplu fund I nlm thou and dollai '* ollleiu 

are Thomas II. Martin, president; Loui Reno, 'loi pri blent ui<l ICdgai I' Martin, 

■ :i hier. The director are Thome II Martin, II V Martin, >Jam< H Martin Itufii 

Martin, Louis Reno, \V. A. Wickliffc and Kdgai I' Martin 

There are seventeen lawyer ami i p| n In th< town Tin ■ '' ■•• itrnrn 

composed of a mayor, a board of six council men, city clork, oil.) treasurci rtlty attorm 
police judge, marshal and night policeman. Then Idont count) officei an I' I Flem 
ing, judge count) court; Thos, V. Bumner, elerl circuit court; l (I Kllison, elerk 
county court; I) 'I'. Mill, county heriff; M.J. Roark, county attorney; I' II 1/yon, 
jailor; \V. \V. Lewis, count uperintendent, and J, It. Blackwell, ''.in,' ..i '| l,< 

mercantile ami bu i ablishmenl "i Q Ik an ■> follows: \' Martin A ' 

• I .. Bad*, l , \I. Morgan, Max Weir A- Co., I J. Jonei , ( ha (laughter, and a Cohan, 
general merchants; -I. K. Reynold* & Co., Wm, Lovell and •! I- Morgan, groc«rri< ' 




ii.niiin 



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l III GBEI n BIVEB ■ "I s l l^ 



Yeargan, and Green «v [rvin, hardware and agricultural implements; <>■ D iter, stoves 
ami tinware; W. II. Dewitt, saddlery ; 1». II. Myers, Jarvis & Williams, and Kahn A 
Gayle, < 1 niLTtri -' ~ : the Roark estate, and O'Brien & Miller, furniture and undertakers; 
Grundrydz Pitzpatrick, lively : Tab & Bon and Wickliffe Bros., flouring mills; T. J. Tin-- 
\*\ & Co., planing mill ; the Greenville Bantu r. newspaper and j'>li printing office ; T< «n> & 
Counts, Blaton & Bohannon and A. Lewis, physicians. 

.Ii doe 1>. J. Fleming is a native of Muhlenburgh county. Be was l">rn on the tenth 
day of January, 1834, on a farm in the eastern part "I the county, near 8kylesville. Beat- 
tended the com i schools of his county during boyh I, reading and studying while at lii- 

(arm labor, thus acquiring a practical English education. Be taught in the public schools 

of the county for about four years after attaining manfa I. working alternately >>i> lii.« 

father's farm. Be also taught in the 
schools of McLean a ty, mar Sacra- 
mento, where in the year 1858, he mar- 
ried Miss Elizabeth Gurst, who died in 
1872. Be afterwards re-married in l~7l 
his present wife, still living. Thejudg 
family consists of wife and twelve chil- 
dren < »n the breaking out of the civil 
war he enlisted asa private in the union 
army in 1 1 1 * - First regiment Kentucky 
lii:lit artillery, Becond battery, f'>r three 
\. are I [e was at x I * • - battle of l"<>rt 
Donclson and participated in the vari- 
ous engagements that preceded the bat- 
tle "I Stum- River. Be was a partici- 
pant in thai great struggle and M- 
battery was strongly instrumental in 
checking the impulsive advance of the 
confederate forces under Breckent 
in that memorable battle, when the 
onion forces were driven back from 
ilicir position. Il< was promoted to a 
antcy in the battery after the battle. Be was a) the battle of Chicamauga, but l>i- 

battery did not '_ r, i into action on ac ml of the falling bank of the anion fon • - \ -hurt 

time after the battle "I Chicamauga he was honorably discharged from the servioi and 
retired t" his farm. In 1890 In- was elected county judge of Muhlenburgh county and was 
re-elected t" t Ik- same office in L894, which position he now holds. 




DAVID J FLEMING 
COUNTY JODOI UUHLBHBDROB COUNTY. 



CENTRAL CITY 

La situated about three miles inland from Green River, in Muhlenburgh county, al the 
junction of the Illinois Central and Owensboro and Nashville division of the Louisville and 
Nashville railroads. The population is about fifteen hundred. The place promisee t" be- 
oomi i considerable manufacturing point. Several important industries are already located 



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77 



here, notably the Hiram Blow & Company, stave works ; the J. T. Jarvis & Son brick 
manufactory, and the large planing mill of T. Q,. Fortney. The Central Coal and Iron 
Company have a very extensive mining plant here, employing a large number of people. 
Central City has important trade relations with Evansville, her merchants obtaining a large 
portion of their goods and supplies from that city by way of the river. The shipping point 
is South Carrollton. The city has a good free school system and two good school buildings. 
There are six churches, embracing the following denominations: Baptist, Methodist Epis- 
copal South, Christian, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Cumberland Presbyterian. Besides the 
industries mentioned above there are two grist mills, one marble shop, one saw mill, one 
saddlery and one blacksmith shop. The business establishments of the city are represented 
by Gish Bros., John L. Gish, Hill & Helsley> W. T. Moore and the Central Coal and Iron 
Company, general merchants ; McDowell Bros, and Joseph Gates, groceries; McDowell & 
Felix and Central Coal and Iron Company, drugs ; Gish Bros., millinery; Cain & Hen- 
drix and J. Stout, liverymen. There are three hotels: the Paxton, the Commercial and 
the Railroad. Mrs. Nofsinger keeps a first-class private boarding house. 

The Central City Deposit Bank, organized under charter of the state, is one of the 
leading institutions of the city and county, transacting a large business in both town and 
country. The physicians are Drs. J. L. and J. W. McDowell and Dr. M. P. Creel. The 
city is supplied with water from Green River. A pumping station is maintained on the 
river, from which the water is forced through a main pipe a distance of two miles to a 
reservoir above the town, and thence supplied to consumers through a main and service 
pipes to all parts of the city. All the industries of the place are supplied with water from 
this source and it is in general use for domestic purposes. One newspaper is published 
here, the Central City Republican. The city government consists of* mayor and six coun- 
eil men, secretary, treasurer, police judge, city attorney and marshal. The Masonic fraternity, 
the A. O. U. W. and K. of H. all have flourishing lodges. 



HIRAM BLOW & COMPANY. 

One of the most important as well as 
most extensive wood-working industries in 
the Green River country is that operated by 
Hiram Blow & Co. These works are 
located at Central City, in Muhlenburgh 
county, on the lines of the I. C. and O. 
& >.'. railroads. The works at this place 
are confined to the manufacture of tight 
barrel staves, and have a capacity of twenty 
thousand staves per day. Whisky, oil, 
tierce, pork and syrup barrel staves are 
included in the manufactured product, but 
the linn make a specialty of the manu- 
facture ot a superior grade of white oak oil 
barrel staves. In connection with the 
works at Central City, and to provide ma- 
terial for their export trade, a large plant 
is operated at Draughon, Ark. This firm 




HIRAM BLOW 



re I III QREEB BIVEB OOUK IKY 

has Btave mills near Black Rook and Oaneyville, Cj . and a barrel factory at Tim— 
ville, Penn. They are also manufacturers of hardwood lumber, for which purpose they 
operate steam saws at Shrewsbury, Ky. In the various departments <<t t In-i r business they 
employ about two hundred men. Mr. Hiram Blow is a native of the ~tat<- • » r" New York Be 

has a handsome home at Titusville, I'a., where 1 » i — family reside. afr.V. J. Blow, - I 

Hiram Blow, is associated with his father in these enterprises. II«- has charge of the Bales 
and financial departments and makes his home in Louisville, Ky. The works were located 
at Central <'it\ in 1896 on account <>t' i t ~ proximity to the bardw 1 timber <>t' Muhlen- 




HIRAU BLOW A CO S STAVE FACTORY 



burgh and surrounding counties. The main offices "t the company are at Central City, 

which is headquart) i - "t the entire system of w l-working establishments operated by this 

company in the south. Mr. Frank J. Pulton, tl bliging I kkeeperand cashier "t the 

firm, i- a young, wide-awake specimen "i western manhood — a native of Kansas. 

Central Coal & [boh Co.— Banner Coleman, president; R R. Hathaway, vice 
president; 8. Coleman, secretary, and Hywel Davies, general manager. The main offio "t 
the company is at Louisville, Kentucky; the office "f general manager is at Central City, 

in Mublenburgl unty. This company is the largesl producer of coal in the Green River 

Valley. They operate the Central mine at Central <'itv. in Muhlenburgfa county, and the 
I.', nder mine, six miles east of Rockport, in Ohio county. Both mines arc w < >rk. if in the 

same vein. The output "I the two mines t'^r 1896, a rding to the report "t State Mine 

Inspector Norw I was near two hundred thousand tons The company own a large area 

of coal lands in the vicinity of its mines, and has also, large real estate interests in Central 
City, of which this company i.- the founder. 



SOUTH CARROLLTON. 

\ town delightfully situated on a high plateau on the lefl bank of Green River, in 
Muhlenburgh county, about equi-distant between Evansville and Bowling Green. It i- on 
the line of the Owensboro branch of thi I. & N. railroad. The town occupies a lii-rli and 
salubrious situation, and is Burrounded by ■ well-improved and fertile region "t (arming 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVTI.LE. 



79 




WEST KENTUCKY COLLEGE 
SHOWING CAMPUS AND MAIN SCHOOL BOILDINO. 



country. It is an important shipping point for a large section of country, including such 
important inland trade centers as Central City, Greenville, Earles and Bremen. The pop- 
ulation is six hundred. The local trade of the town is considerable, and its merchants bear 

a high reputation for promptness and 
integrity. Four general stores, four 
grocery stores, two drug stores, two 
millinery stores, two marble shops, 
two livery stables, two blacksmith 

and w l-working simps transact the 

business of the town. There are two 
good hotels and one large flouring 
mill. The Methodists and Baptists, 

each have (•< nodious church edifices 

and flourishing congregations. The 
physicians of the place are Drs. J. R. 
Barnes and John N. Moorman. South 
Carrollton enjoys the distinction of 
being the seat of the West Kentucky 
College, an institution of learning that 
occupies a high position among the 
educational institutions of the state. 
Its founder, Prof. Way land Alexander, 
Ph.D., was born of Scotch-Irish parentage, in Jefferson county, Ky., June 26th, 1839. His 
boyhood was spent upon his father's farm, where he acquired those habits of industry and 
self-reliance that have been marked features in his character all through life. The vigor of 
his intellect was such that at the age of 
fourteen lie entered Asbury College, 
Greencastle, Ind., where" he remained 
two years, studying under eminent pro- 
fessors. From Asbury he went to 
Shelbyville, Ky., remaining two years 
in the college there, prosecuting his 
studies under gifted instructors. He 
spent some time in the study of la\v ) 
with a view of making the legal profes- 
sion his life work, but finding the law 
uncongenial, he determined to devote 
himself to teaching, thus finding the 
field of usefulness for which nature had 
specially endowed him. His first work 
in his chosen profession was at Sacra- 
mento, McLean county, where he opened 
and taught a school with marked suc- 
cess, demonstrating fully his ability as a 
teacher. While teaching his first school 
(in 1860) lie met and married Miss west Kentucky college, primary department 




THE OBJ K\ l:l\ I i: • ..I s 1 KY 

Jennie I >:i\ it . :i in->-t worthy and accomplished young lady, whose many excellent qualities 

nt' both head and heart, have contributed in do small degree to the si ess which has 

attended her husband's work. Prom the time In- entered U| hi- tir-t educational 

work, in 1858) down to the present time, covering :i period of thirty-nine years, 
Dr. Alexander has been continuously engaged in teaching, with the exception of m -hurt 
period during the civil war. Il< established the s..uth Carrollton Male and Female 

Institute in 1*7:1, which, ;i- long as he remained :ii it- head, was ■ of the -t 

flourishing schools of the entire Green River valley, Beveral of whose graduates, both 
male ami female, have attained eminence in the learned professions. He was called to 
the presidency of the Hartford College and Business Institute in 1880, remaining in charge 
of this institution t\\n years. In 1882 he became the president of the West Kentucky 

< Classical and Normal Collej - uth < Sarrollton, where be built up one of the largest and 
most thorough normals in the state of Kentucky. In 1886 he was again elected president 
nt Hartford College, remaining at the bead of that institution a number of years, when he 
was again prevailed upon by the citizens of 8outfa Carrollton to assume control ofthecollege 
at that place. The college buildings and grounds wen deeded to him in order that hi- 
efforts in behalf of the institution might be completely untrammelled. The wisdom of this 
oourse on the part "t the citizens "t South < Carrollton has been demonstrated bj the result. 
The fame of Dr. Alexander as an instructor, the universal esteem in which In- i- held as a 
man. hi- tireless energj and executive ability in the management of the affairs "I the college, 

has Imilt ii|i an institution sei 1 to none in tin- whole < Ireen River valley. West Kentucky 

College, in its fame and it- usefulness, is wholly the work of 1 >r. Alexander, and if tin ri 
should be no other monument erected to hi- memory, this grand school lur boys and trirlr- 
in the heart of the < rreen River country, will perpetuate the memory of it- founder through 
after years. W i close thi- brief sketch "t Dr. Alexander's lili' and labors with a quotation 
from a paper furnished by Mr. William Poster, Jr., a former pupil of Dr. Alexander'a, and 
iniw one nt' the professors in the department <>t chemistry at Princeton, N. J., read on the 
occasion "t the reunion and commencement exercises of West Kentucky ' College, Jum 3d 

and 1th. 1897: "We all gratulate Dr. Alexander upon hi- long years "t beneficent 

Bervioe, upon the useful men and women educated under his guiding care, upon his valuable 
contribution to the educational history and development ••! Kentucky and other states, and 
upon tin splendid work he and his co-laborers are now doing at West Kentucky College. 
Let ii- all hope thai bis influence will grow wider as thi _: I i ■ It ■ by, and that he shall 

have yet a long period of active, useful service for the development of the human race." 

L. 1'. Downs was born on Rough river, in Ohio county, mar Hartford Ky . on the 
22d . 1 : i \ of January, 1850. He removed with bis father on Green River about the <■!■ 
the civil war in 1865, He was then only a slender lad of fifteen, Boon after settling upon 

< in i n River be began cutting timber on a small scale, at which business he continued, mar- 
rying in 1869 Miss l'n in ii' M. Rowe. This marriage resulted in the birth often children. 
His father died in about the same year of his marriage with Miss Re Boon after his 
marriage he began timber cutting and dealing on a large scale, his services always being 
in demand by the extensive saw mills of Evansville. He has probably run more saw logs 
nt' his own cutting on » rreen River than any other man on the river. He is now -till in the 

n_' business, being in the employ of John A. Reiti <S Sons, "i Evansville. Mr. 

Downs i- known by almost everj "i n the river, and i- universallj respected ti>r his in- 

tegritj and business cbaracfa • Heow os a fine (arm of f-iur hundred acres of rich bottom land "ii 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



81 



Greeu River, upon which lie has a beautiful residence two miles below South Carrollton, in 
Ohio county. Mr. Downs is a Baptist and also a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 
polities he is a strong republican. His 
grandfather was the celebrated pioneer 
baptist preacher, Wm. Downs, who came 
to the Green River country while the In- 
dians were still in possession. 

Wm. S. Vice — Mr. Vick is a resident 
of South Carrollton, and is proud of the 
land of his birth, the Green River country. 
He was born on a farm in Muhlenburgh 
county, five miles west of Greenville, on 
the 30th of April, 1864. He obtained a 
good English education in the county 
schools and at the same time worked man- 
fully i>n the farm until he reached his 
majority. After reaching manhood he cm- 
barked in the livery business for a short 
time — but a more congenial opening pre- 
senting itself — he engaged in the business 




of a commercial traveler, continuing on 



L P. DOWNS, FARMER AND TIMBER DEALER 



the road for a period ot five years in 
the Western states and territories. In 1891 he married Miss Jennie L. Gordon, of South 
Carrollton, a most estimable young lady, since which time he has confined his travels to the 
State of Kentucky — mainly the Green River country. Mr. Vick has a pleasant home in 

the town of South Carrollton, whose 
attractions — a devoted wife and two 
interesting children, a girl and a boy — 
constitute the magnet that draws him 
to its sacred precincts in spite of the 
allurements of business. 

Dr. J. R. Barnes was born in Ohio 
county, Ky., March 8th, 1858. His 
father, David A. Barnes, (deceased) was 
a prosperous farmer and stock raiser. 
His mother's maiden name was Cath- 
erine A. Birkhead, who was a member 
of one of the most prominent families of 
Daviess county, Ky. Dr. Barnes spent 
the early part of his life upon his lather's 
farm and in the public schools of the 
county. When he attained his ma- 
jority he went to Daviess county and 
engaged in farming and cattle grazing, 
col. w s vick w ' tn u ' s unc ' e , Thomas \\\ Birkhead. 







THK GREEN KIVKi: OOUNTBV 




In 1882 be left the farm ami entered West Kentucky College, then presided over by 

that prim educators, Dr. W. AJexander. He remained in wl I t *• > 1 1 r j 

graduating from Hartford college in 1886, receiving the degree of A. B. His standing 

in the class was Buch thai he w:>- made 
it- valedictorian. In the rammer of 
M . he went to Bvansville, Ind., and 
tiMik ;i business course, and bad charge 
«>t' the commercial department in Hart- 
ford college the following year During 
the two years next succeeding his gradua- 
tion from Hartford college, he taught :i 
graded school :ii Mason vi lie, Daviess 
county, Kv. In 1888 he was called to 
till the chair of mathematics and natural 
science in W • -• Kentucky College. In 
he i' signed tlii- position and en- 
t. n <1 the medical department "t the 
university of Louisville, Ky., graduat- 
ing from that institution in 1892. Dr. 
Barnes is a firm believer iu the "germ 
theory" of diseases, and while in medical 
college he t< .« >k :i thorough course in 
bacteriology and microscopical tech- 
nology, becoming thoroughly acquainted 

with the use of the microscope. Shortly :iltrr leaving scl I he purchased :i fine mi- 

croscope of his own with all the neoessarj equipments, and has Bince been called upon i" 
do nearly all the microscopical work of the medical profession in tln~ part of the Green 
River country. He began the practice of medicine with l>r. W. E. [rvin :it S.utli Carroll- 
ton, June 10th, 1>'.''J, but after -i\ months In- bought l>r. trvi it and assumed the entire 

practice. In 1889 he was married t" Miss Nannie 
Ni:il. daughter "l W. II. and Nancy J. Neal, "t the 
aforesaid place. Dr. Barues i> a Bteward in the 
Methodist Church, s.putli. of which he has been a 
member Bince the winter of l s ^ ll< is a buo- 
il and progressive physician, keeping fully 
abreast "t the times in lii- profession. II- ia :i 
member of the American Medical Association, the 
Kentucky State Medical Society and the Muhlen- 
burgh count} Board of Health. He is also medical 
examiner for six different old line life insurance 
companies 

AIRDRE. 

This is one of the most interesting spots on 

:i River. Not because of anj peculiar charm 

arising from natural location or artificial embellish- 



DR J R BARNES 




OBN D C BUBLL 



FROM BOWMNG GREEN TO EVAXSVILLE. 



83 



ment, but because it is and has been for many years, the home of one of America's illus- 
trious citizens. At the close of the civil war General D. C. Buell retired from public life 
aud sought seclusion here upon the rugged banks of Green River. The motive for 
this seclusion has never passed the breast of General Buell. The fact remains that 
here in the calm and quiet of his woods and farms this almost lone survivor of the 
great leaders of the union army is content to spend the evening of life. The house 
aud grounds of Airdrie are located upon the crest of a moderately high bluff on the left 
hand bank of the river, about one mile below Paradise. 

The latter is its post town. The dwelling house at Airdrie is a two-story frame with wide 
central hall and wing extending back, containing dining room, kitchen and storerooms. A 







AIRDRIE. HOME OF GENERAL BUELL. 

veranda spans the front of the house from which is obtained a view of the river for a con- 
siderable distance up and down. A narrow lawn set with flower beds and flanked by forest 
trees, descends somewhat steeply from the front of the house to the river bank. The view 
of Airdrie from the river is impaired by the presence of these trees and other low growth 
near the water's edge. Airdrie is not a grand place made resplendent by the skill of the 
architect, the sculptor's chisel or the painter's brush. No special effort has been bestowed 
upon its ornamentation. It is simply the plain and unpretentious home of a cultured gen- 
tleman. Graveled walks extending to different parts of the forest covered grounds and 
whitewashed arbors reached by rustic bridges over intervening ravines, make up the sum 
of human infringement on nature's domain. The untrimmed woods, canopying moss-grown 
banks and tenanted by nature's choirs, seem to accord best with the mood of the master of 



-I 



TIIK GREEN RIVER I Ol MIIV 



Airdrie. The melodies of the circling groves, the Boftly flowing river, the Tine-draped 
cliffs, the sobdued sounds "i forest life and the peaceful ••aim thai rests upon all, an- in liar- 

iiv with the spirit thai turned him aside from the hurrying multitude of In- fellow men. 

General Buell is nearing, if not alread) past his three - rami ten years, but he does not 

Iniik his age. The life forces inherited from a hardy ancestry and conserved bj an al>- 
stemious life, have opt rati d t" proloog ld> physical and mental vigor beyond that of ordinary 
men. 1 1 • is a strict disciplinarian, as might !»• expected from bis education and training, 
subjecting himself and household t" a regular round "t' duties and labors. Ordinarily, bis 
time is divided between lii- farms, his poultry, of which he is an enthusiastic breeder, and 
hi~ library . II*- is not a recluse by an} means. His Bplendid engineering talent and militarj 
knowledge have made lii- services desirable to the govt rnment in connection with the |>n!>- 
lic work no« proceeding at Shiloh battle-field. Beyond the time spent in the execution 
nt tlii- commission he seldom goes abroad. He occasionally visits points in his neighbor- 
hood, \\ here he is an in- 
teresting figure, on ac- 
count "t bis Boldierly 
bearing and martial :i| >- 
pearance on horseback. 
He i- much addicted t" 
horseback exercise, a 
habit acquired during 
his campaigning days 
and persevered in lor 
it- healthrulness and ex- 
hilerating effect. 1 tressed 
in 1 1 i lt 1 1 i • • | • boots, slouch 
hat and coat buttoned to 
the chin and Bitting <ni 
bis horse lik<' a centaur 
and cantering rapidly 
along a forest road, one 
could imagine him at the head of his troops hurrying to the relit- 1 of the beaten and de- 
moralised union forces on the night succeeding the first da\ 's battle "I Bhiloh. The ' • • at ral 
takes a deep interest in public affaire, especially in matters affecting the interests "t bis im- 
i in diat • section. He is greatly interested in the development of the agricultural and mineral 

resources "i the Green River country. He has a si thorough and scientific knowledge 

ol the mineral wealth <>t tlii- porti t the state ol Kentucky, having devoted years 

tn investigations relative t" tlii- branch of her resources. 

In pers General Buell is about five feel ten inches in stature, sparely, though 

sturdily built, and weighs aboul one hundred and fifty pounds. His carriage is 
erect, and lii> uiotious active, yet deliberate. His manner is reserved, though nol 
unsocial. His general bearing in social converse is that of though tfulness tending to intro- 
-|i. itinn. He is a ready, t li< .u l^I i not a fluent conversationalist, and impresses one as being 

incapable of indulging in light talk or humor. The portrait a mpanying this sketch is 

from a photograph taken in 1864, and is the onlj profile likeness of General Hindi in ex- 
istence. It recalls a dark hour in the history ol our i ntry, l>m it also reminds us of tin- 




AIRDRIB. HRIDGB AND BRANCH ROAD 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EV A NSVILLE. 85 

debt of love and veneration we owe to those noble spirits who stood as the nation's bulwark 
of safety while the tearful shadow passed. Time has seared the wounds of fratricidal strife 
and drawn its flower-wrought robe over fields sodden with the blond of brothers, but it has 
uot effaced from the minds of the survivors of the struggle a shuddering sense of its horrors 
nor a tender reverence for its heroes. 



PARADISE, 

Located on the left bank of the river, in Muhlenburgh county, is one hundred and seven- 
teen miles from Evansville. It is a thriving shipping point for a productive country ad- 
jacent and for several interior points. J. Brown, W. S. Fox and Wallace Bros., are deal- 
ers iu general merchandise and country produce. Wm. Shackelton, tobacco dealer, operates 
a stemmery at this point, handling a large share of this staple in the neighborhood. Mr 
Shackelton has been in business here for thirty years. 



EARLES, 

A trading point eleven miles from South Carrollton, which is its shipping point. II. 
Martin A: Bro. operate an extensive tobacco factory here, making strips. Moore & Martin 
are proprietors of a general store, handling all kinds of country produce and conducting a 
very large and prosperous business. 



OHIO COUNTY. 



JT^HIS county is the fifth of the series lying on the navigable waters of Green River. 
X It is on the east side of the river, next below Butler, although nearly in line with 
Muhlenburgh in its relation to the river. But the river in its tortuous course after flow- 
ing through Butler, enters Ohio county twenty-five miles above the line of Muhlenburgh, 
flows some ten miles on its territory, and returns to Butler county. After flowing in the 
latter county for a distance of twelve to fifteen miles it again returns and for a short dis- 
tance forms the boundary between Ohio and Butler counties, when it finally becomes the 
dividing line between Ohio on the right and Muhlenburgh and McLean on the left bank 
of the river for a distance of more than forty miles. Ohio county has about fifty miles of 
navigable water frontage. Ceralvo, Rockport and Cromwell are important shipping points 
on this frontage, while there are a number of trading points and landings of lesser note. 
The county of Ohio is one of the original territorial divisions of the state of Kentucky at 
its first organization. It was named after the Ohio River, although no part of it touches 
that river. The county is iu the coal field of western Kentucky, and has an area of 
three hundred and eighty thousand acres, or nearly six hundred square miles. In common 






I 111 OR J kn l:l\t R COUN1 RY 



with the entire Green River section, thi> county was originally covered with a dense 
growth "I forest timber. A great deal of this timber has been out down and rafted to the saw 
mills ol Evansville or converted into lumber for local use, but there yel remains large 
tracts "i fine timbered land almost untouched. 

The coal mined in the count] is mainly from No. 9 vein, celebrated throughout tin- 
country for it- adaptation i" steam and domestic use. No. 1 1 vein i- also workable in this 
county. Along the line of the [llinois Central railroad, which runs through the southern 
pari of the county and crosses the river at Rockport, are a number of mines in operation, 
all working No. 9 vein. The McHenry Coal ami Mining Company and the Central ' 
ami Iron Company both operate extensive mines on this line, the former the McHenry and 
the Echols and the latter the Render mine. The Williams and the Taylor mines in tin- -aim 

neighbor] I are actively worked. This entire group ol mines is within a short distance 

oi Rockport, on Green River. The Central Coal and Iron Company also operate a mine 
at Central City, in Muhlenburgh county, in the -aim- vein. There are also productive 

mini - at Fordsville and 
I •■ anefield, in the eastern 
pari ol the count] . The 
Jamestown Coal Com- 
pany operate a mine 
three miles above Liver- 
more. The product of 
tin- mine is consumed in 
the local market. Six- 
teen men are emplo] ed. 
The vein worked is N 
9, of a good qualitj . The 
mine is worked by drift. 
W. s. Trunin II, secre- 
tary ami tr. asurer ami 
also manager, ami F. < >. 
( oilman, president. 
( >ln,. county ranks 

third in tin- -tad in the 

volume of her coal product. Hopkins ami Whitley, in tin order named, being the only 
counties producing a larger quantity. Tin' county contains immense beds of iron ore, the 
conversion of which, in tin' early future, is destined to become a vast industry. Proft 
Shalir. director of the Kentuckj geological survey, says : "There i> iron ore enough in 
this region to run fifty furnaces for centuries. It oapathe hills and can be worked at verj 

little expense." The surface of the county i- less broken than that ol so t' the counties 

lying above it. Along the water courses there an- considerable tract- ot hilly lands, but a 
large portion of the count] presents a measurabl] level surface well adapt* •! to forming ami 
grazing purposes. The -oil i~ alluvial or sandy loam, according to thi accident ol it- 
formation ami produces all the cerials, grass and tobacco. The culture of fruit is a grow- 
ing industry— the census reports giving tin- county third place in tin- production ol apples 
and peaches among the counties ol the Green River Valley. The county is well supplied 
with water by numerous streama, creeks and springs. Rough River, the principaJ stream 




LOCK AND DAM ON ROUGH RIVER 



FROM BO\VI,IN(; GREEN TO EVANSV1 1. I.E. 



87 



in tlif county, crosses it from easl to west and is made navigable to Hartford, the county 
.scat, 1)V means of slack water obtained by lock and dam nine miles from its mouth and 
about twenty miles below Hart- 
ford. Panther ('reck in the 
northern, Caney Creek in the 
eastern, and Mud Creek and 
Beaver Dam Creek in the south- 
ern portions of the county are 
all valuable irrigating streams. 
The output of coal of the 
county, as given by the United 
States census reports tor the ^H 
year 1889, was two hundred and 
forty-six thousand two hundred 
and fifty-three tons. 

The report of Mine In- 
spector Norwood gives the out- 
put for the year 1896 at three 
hundred and sixty-eight thous- 
and and ninety-four tons, an increase in production of thirty-three percent, 
products for Ohio county census report of 1890: 




BRIDGE OVER ROUGH RIVER AT HARTFORD 



Table of 



OHIO COUNTY PRODUCTS. 



Farms 
Acreage 
Live Stock, 
Farm Products, 



Number 



Val 



2,993 

110 
$ 817,475 
$ 734,590 



Corn. 
Oats, 
Wheat, 

Apples, 
Peaches, 
Irish Potatoes, 
Sweet Potatoes 



Bushels 948,889 

90,000 



57,000 

163,118 

18,288 

36,566 

8,502 



Value Garden Products $ 1,392 

Tobacco, Pounds 1,760,368 



Broom Corn, Pounds 

Honey, " 

Beeswax, " 

Wool, 

Hay, 

Coal, 

Coal, 



Horses, 

Mules, 

Sheep, 

Hogs, 

Chickens, 

Eggs, 



Tons 

fc 

Value .... 

UVE STOCK. 

Number 



Dozen 



3,596 

26,185 

504 

43,785 

9,364 

246,253 

$ 200,497 

5,897 

1,719 

12,497 

29,546 

193,133 

357,296 



HARTFORD, 

The county seat of Ohio county, is situated near the center of the county, at the head 
of navigation on Rough River, one hundred and twenty miles from the city of Evansville. 
The population of the town is about one thousand, and being the seat of justice and principal 
town in the county, numbers among its citizens many men of prominence throughout the 
state, in the several professions of law, medicine and politics. The city is built on the left 
bank of Rough River, and has an elevated situation on ground sloping to the river. It is 
surrounded by a rich and well-improved farming country, and is within easy reach of the 

hard-w 1 timber of the river forests, offering superior inducements for the establishment 

of woodworking industries. The town has no railroad connections, Beaver Dam being the 



u 



l ill OKI EN i:i\ l l: < .11 m \;\ 



uearesl railroad point, \\lii«li is on the [llinois Central, five milea away. Two stagt lines 
making two iri|i- each daily, connect with train- on the above-mentioned road. The oourt 
bouse i- Iniili (if brick, surrounded bj a rather ornate iron fence, and the grounds about the 
county buildings are shaded by fine old trees. In appearance the town i» thrifty and 
impresses one with a Bense of stability. Many of the business houses are built of brick and 

are r y ami oon\ eniently arranged. Three sidi - of the public square are solidly built up 

with business bouses as is also the main Btreel leading t" the river binding. The new brick 
block Imilt'aml owned by Mr. S. K. Cox, of the Ohio county bank, on the northeast corner 
■ >t Main street and 1 1 * * - public square, i- a very handsome building of modern construction, 
ami adds greatly (•< the appearance of tin- town. The trade of Hartford is largely local, but, 
being surrounded by a populous and productive region of country, the volume "i business 

'I by her merchants i- verj large. There an a numbt r of gt neral stores, carrying large 

Btocks "t merchandise, 
besides many smalh i 
talili-lnmnt- dealing ill 
special lines. AJmost 
every line <>t' trade and 
business is represented. 
There arc- two banks, the 
< >hio < '"iintv Bank and 
the Bank of Hartford ; 
two hotels, a number "I 
boarding houses and two 
livery Btables. Tin- bar 
of Hartford is of more 
than provincial celebrity 
in the ability "I it- mem- 
bers. >"im- ut the oldest 
ami ablest lawyers in 
t h i- Btate are located 
here, and the youi 

members of the profession are justly celebrated t'>r their talents and high legal attain- 
ments. Henrj D. Mil ienry, a former member ol congress from this district, now deceased, 
was a native oft )lii< > county and a member of it- bar. His widow >till liv< - in Hartford, "t 
which -In has been a resident !'■ >r forty-one years. The bistorj "l the town dates back to a 
period co-incident with the first settlement of Kentucky. The first recorded plat "I the 
town i- dated May 6th, 1816, but at least as earl} as 1790, and probably as early as 1786, 
there was a settlement and fort near Ibe Bite of the present town. In Collins' historical 
sketches it i- Btated: "The immediate vicinity of Hartford was settled at a very early period 

ami was often the scene of bl ly strife and acts of noble daring. Hartford and Barnett's 

-tat imi- were about two miles apart, and, although never regularh besieged, were frequently 
harrassed by Btraggling parties "f Indian-, ami a number "t persons who ventured out "t 
Bight of the stations were killed or captured. In April, 1790, the Indians waylaid Bar- 
m it'- station and killed t«" ■■( the ohildreu of John Anderson, < foe of the party aaaanlted 
Mi- Anderson w itli a Bword, inflicted several wounds upon her person, and while in thi 
of taking off her scalp John Miller ran up « ithin about t«' my Bt< | - and wappt ■! bis rill' at 




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him. The Indian fled, leaving his sword, but succeeded in carrying off the scalp of Mrs. 
Anderson. She, however, recovered and lived some ten or twelve years afterwards. The 
same party captured and carried off Hannah Barnett, a daughter of Col. Joseph Barnett, then 
a girl of about ten years of age. They retained her as a captive until October of tiie same year, 
when through the instrumentality other brother-in-law, Robert Baird, she was restored to her 
friends." The date of these incidents places the first settlement of the town some time anterior 
to the year 1 790. The following is a brief crtalogue of the business men of Hartford : Carson 
& Co., dealers in dry goods, clothing and furniture; J. A. Thomas, general merchant; Pate 
Bros., groceries; Fair & Co., general merchants; J. E. Fogle & Co., dry goods and clothing- 
George Klein, hardware and notions; A. D. White, hardware and groceries; Thomas Bros., 
groceries; Z. W. Griffin, drugs; James Williams, drugs; Mrs. Anna Lewis, millinery; J. H. 
Patten & H. Field, livery. There are three hotels, the Commercial Hotel, the Hartford, 
and the Yeiser Mouse. The leading industries of Hartford are a large flouring mill and 
wool-carding establishment operated by J. W. Ford & Co. This firm also operates a saw 
mill. A saw mill is operated by Patten iv. Condit, who are also dealers in lumber. There 
are three blacksmithing and wood-working shops — R. H. Gillespie, A. Tweeddle and J. W. 
Ford & ( o. There are two banks, the Ohio County Bank, a cut of whose building is given 
herein, ami the Hartford Bank. There are three handsome churches, occupied by 
the Methodists, the Baptists and the Cumberland Presbyterians. The Christian denomina- 
tion has a congregation, but no church building. There are two colored churches, Baptist 
and Methodist. The town has a good system of free schools, supported by local taxation. 
The Hartford College, under the man- 
agement of Profs. Morton and Crowe, is 
an institution of much prominence in 
the section. Its curriculum embraces 
a full collegiate course The educa- 
tional interests of the county are in the 
hands of Mr. Z. H. Schultz, superintend- 
ent of schools, who is a young man of 
excellent attainments, and zealous in the 
advancement of the cause of education. 
The schools of the county under his man- 
agement and oversight are in a most ef- 
ficient and satisfactory condition. Two 
good newspapers are published here — 
the Hartford Courier and the Hartford 
Republican. The practicing physicians 
are Drs. E. W. Ford, J. 8. Morton, F. 
B. Pendleton and J. T. Miller. 

The Ohio County Bank — This 
institution was established in February, 
L896, by ('apt. Samuel K. Cox under the 
general banking law of the state of Ken- 
tucky. It is a private institution, 
being entirely owned and controlled 
by its founder. The last report of 

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OHIO COUNTY BANK BUILDING 
S. K. COX. OWNER. 






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the affairs "i the bank made to the secretary <<( state under the prot isions "i the Ian shows 

thirty-two il Band 'i^lii hundred and forty dollars :in«l twenty-nine oenta assets, and tin- 

bank to '»' in a very satisfactory condition. Captain Cox bas a very commodious new 
brick building, one-half "f which is occupied by lii- bank and the other by Fair & Co. aaa 

general store. Mr. Cox i- :i nativeof Hancock county, Kentucky, but has been an I red 

citizen of < >lii unty for thirty -s v< a years. He served three terms as tj court clerk 

of the county and was cashier "I the bank "i Hartford ti>r thirteen years. Captain Cox is 
greatly interested in the affairs of bis town and county and in the development "t the Green 

River section. He enjoys the confidenci and estee f his fellow citizens and in all the 

relations of life is a -t estimable gentleman. 

The social structure in its last analysis rests upon a few individuals, and frequently 

strong individuality gives t and coloring ti> the social status of an entire community. 

In the commercial world, in the professions, in literature :'n<l art and indeed in all the 
pursuits "t life there are found persons, who, by reason "t superior ability, .-kill i>r i i 

I,,. recognized as leaders in their several callings. Brains and energy are two of the 

constituent elements in the make-up of the man who steps to the front. These factors, 
when properly directed and controlled by a sense of moral obligation, arc sure t>> result in 
worldly preferment t" their possessor and substantial good t" the community in which they 
are exercised. There are many liiiidit examples "I tin- type of men in * > 1 * i * ► county, who 
-land forth prominently as leaders in every walk <d life. In the profession "t law we find 
spaoi i" present short sketches of the following gentlemen : 

Benjamin l». Ringo was born at Prestonville, Carroll county, Ky , May 25th, 1864, 

His father was William I. Ringo, for many years a merchant at Prestonville. Hi- a -tur- 

came from North Carolina among the parly settlers of this state. In 1852 William L. 

Kiml'" was married to Martha Duncan, 
ol Trimble county, Ky., and of the tour 
children of this union, Ben. I '. is the only 
one living. William I. Ringo was 
broken up by the war and died in 1864. 
In 1869 Benjamin was taken by lii- 
mother to Daviess county, Ky., where 
In- lived upon a farm. Meantime he had 
attended for a few months the county 
schools of hi- neighborhood, receiving, 
however, most of his early education 
at the bands of hia mother. He after- 
ward attended Hartford College, j-m^ 
ili. ii. i i" Eastman College at Pough- 
k< espie, \ Y., irhen be graduated in 
1882. He taught for ■ time at Ln 
more, Ky., and afta r spending t«" 
years in travel in the west, he returned 
tn Kentucky and taught one year at 
nfasonville, after which be was elected 
bbn d. rinoo. bsq '" :1 i »• >-i t i • »i i in Hartford College where 




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lir t : i u u' 1 1 1 (<>r lour years. Here he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1890 
and at once began an active practice, soon after forminga partnership with Mr. E. D. Guffy, 
which continued until Mr. GufFy withdrew from the firm to become assistant secretary of 
state in 1896, since which time Mr. RingO has continued to enjoy a large practice, as the 
firm hadduringits previous existence. In December, 1892, Mr. Ringo was married to Miss 
Emma M. Ryan, of Logan county, and she, together with his mother and a baby hoy, now 
one year old, make up his family. Mr. Ringo has not been a politician in the sense of 

seeking office. In 1893 lie was appointed master commissioner of the Ohio circuit t -t, 

which position he now holds. He was for two years member for his district of the State 
Hoard of Equalization, and during 1896 was chairman of that body. He has always been 
a democrat, and is a strong supporter of democratic doctrines. He has lor a number of 
years been a member of the Methodist church, Si uth, and is an active worker in the Sunday 
school and other institutions of that church. His personal character and professional stand- 
ing you may know about from anybody 
in this locality. He has a pleasant home 
in Hartford, where his friends are always 
welcome. 

James S. GlENN was horn on a 
farm in Ohio county, Ky., on the 29th 
day of November, 1857. He obtained 
his education in the common schools of 
his native county and at the West Ken- 
tucky college at South Carrollton, Ky., 
from which he graduated with honor in 
1879. In 1880 he married Miss Belle 
Barnes, of Hartford. His first work 
after leaving college was teaching in the 
Hartford college, in which he occupied 
the chair of ancient languages and natural 
science. Having determined to make the 
profession of law his future occupation, 
he gave up teaching and entered the law 
office of Hon. J. E. Fogle, of Hart- 
ford, where he applied himself to the study id' the law for several years. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1894, and entered at once upon the practice of his profession. He now enjoys 
a lucrative business, attending the courts of Ohio, Muhlenburgh, McLean and Daviess 
counties. Asa lawyer Mr. Glenn stands in the front rank of the profession in his section. 
He is a member of" the order of the Knights of Pythias and is universally esteemed for his 
high social qualities and genial disposition. 

Hon. John S. R, WEDDING, lawyer, orator and politician, was burn in Ohio county, 
Kv., thirty-two years ago. He is the youngest child of Robert G. and Mary (Hale) Wed- 
ding. Being thrown upon his own resources at a very early age, he managed by earnest 
industry to obtain a good English education. For a while he taught school and at the age 
of twenty-two began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar at the November term 
of the ( )hio circuit court the same year. Since Ins admission to the liar he has been actively 




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S R WEDDING ESQ 



_.il in the practice of law, and has attained distinction in hie profession, both as ■ 

cogent reasoner and an orator of great brilliancy. He is an tu mpromising republican 

and baa taken quite :i pr inenl part 

in politics. Il> -lump. ■! the t«>iirtli 
Kentucky district in 1892 in the in- 
terest of lii- party, and it was during 
the time he was chairman "I the re- 
publican county committee of Ohio 
county thai the first republicans ever 
elected t" office in the county a 
elected At the republican state con- 
vention in 1896 be was member from 
the Btate-at-large "I 1 1 « « - committee on 
resolutions, and drafted the resolution in 
favor of the single gold Bta/idard, which 
was afterward adopted by 1 1 » « - '"n- 
vention. He was elector from tin- 
Imirtli Kentucky district on 1 1 ■ « - Mc- 
Kinley ticket, ancl canvassed the dis- 
trict in the interest of the republican 
party. He baa the distinguished honor 
of being a member "t the first repub- 
lican electoral college ever elected in 

Kentucky. Mr. Wedding is a citizen of Hartford, the count] Beat ■•! lii- native county, 

where he has resided rinoe the time he began the practice ol law. He was married 

December 20th, 1893, to Mi- Lucj B 

Townsend, the youngest child "t the lab 

Judge John C. Townsend, a distinguished 

member of the Hartford bar. Both Mr. 

ami Mrs. Wedding are members of the 

Hartford Baptist church. 

Ki '.i:.s i Prbstom \ i \ i.. a mem- 
ber of the Hartford bar and count] 

attorne] for the count] ■ >! < fhio, is a 

conspicuous example of the success that 

attends self-reliance and determination 

of purpose. His environment in youth 

tanghl him the virtues nf self-dependence 

and perseverance. 1 1 i — father, although 

a considerable farmi r, was unable t" \:\\<- 

liini the advantages of a collegiate ed- 

ncation, and bis only recourse for mental 

training was in the common schools of 

the county, but being endowed by nature 

with a vigorous intellect, he acquired 

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ing and self-culture a solid education in the English branches of knowledge. Mr. Neal was 
born in Ohio county, near Prentis, September 27th, 1863. He remained and worked 
with his father on the farm, assisting dutifully in the care and comfort of an in- 
valid mother until manhood. On attaining his majority, his earnest and sincere 
disposition and independence of thought led him away from the political tenets of 
his father, and he espoused the political doctrines of the republican party. His energy 
and the brightness of his intellect soon marked him as a leader, and he was prevailed 
upon to establish a paper in the interests of the party, at the county seat. The force and 
vigor manifested by the young editor attracted the attention of prominent men of the party, 
and gave him a state reputation, and on the meeting of the state convention, in the city of 
Louisville, in 1888, he was selected as its chairman over the Hon. George Denny, who was 
a candidate for that honor. Having thus become engaged in politics, he determined to 
adopt the law as a profession, not only because that profession accorded with the natural 
bent of his mind, but for the reason that it furnished the best basis of opportunity for pre- 
ferment and usefulness. He studied law with the Hou. George W. Jolly, of Owensboro, 
and received his license to practice from the Daviess county circuit court, and entered at once 
upon the practice. In 1894 he was the nominee of the republican party for county attorney 
of Ohio county, and was elected to the office by the largest majority of any candidate on the 
ticket. He now holds the office of county attorney, and is a leading member of the Ohio 
county bar. As an officer he has won the approval of all parties by his fearless, able and 

impartial administration. Mr. Neal mar- 
ried, in 1890, Miss Fannie Miller, the 
estimable daughter of Mr. W. T. Miller, a 
prominent citizen of Ohio county. Per- 
sonally and socially Mr. Neal enjoys the 
universal respect and confidence of the 
entire people of his county, and no doubt 
will be called upon to serve them in their 
public affairs in the future. 

Gabriel B. Likens is a native of 
Ohio county. He was born February 17th, 
1867, near Horton, in said county, on a 
farm, and spent his early life in the duties 
and labor that fall to the lot of a farmer 
His primary school training was 
common schools of the 
county, where he evinced a love of study 
and activity of mind that presaged a career 
of usefulness. After passing through the 
common schools, he attended the West 
Kentucky College at South Carrollton, where he graduated with the degree of B. S. Pie 
spent some years in teaching in the county schools, at the South Carrollton College, aud at 
the Alexandria, Tenn., high school. In 1892 he received the nomination of the democratic 
party for the office of circuit court clerk and was elected to the office. Mr. Likens has taken 
an active part in the counsels of his party from the outset of his official career and has done 




boy. 



gained in the 



G. B. LIKENS, CLERK CIRCUIT COURT. 



94 



THE 0R1 1 N KIN l.K !■<>[■ \ TRY 



it in a way thai baa gained him friends without increasing his opponents. In the discharge 
of the duties of the office to which the people called him, he lia~ been impartial, courteous 
and attentive to all, winning the admiration and esteem of the |» ■ >j •!«• in general without 
regard to party. Mr. Likens takes great interest in the cause "t education and in 1 1 1 » - 

morals "t il ommunity, doing all in bis power t" promote and secure these essentials "t 

g I society. He is a member of the Baptist church and assistant superintendent "t tin- 

Sunday Bchool. He is also a member oi the Masonic fraternity and junior warden "l the 
local lodge. Socially bis standing leaves nothing t" I"- desired. 

Calvin P. K bowk, sheriff oi < )hi< > < ty. Mr. Keown was born in <>hi,. county 

February 24th, 1855, on a farm near Fordsville, He obtained a practical English education 

in tin- common schools of his native 




county 
taught 






Mini after reaching manhood 
in the Bchools. In 1881 he 
married Miss Amanda II. Robey and 
devoted himself i" the business ol farm- 
ing, which he continued to prosecute 
with the zeal and Buccess thai character- 
ised all bis undertakings. In 1894 In- 
_^- ^r was chosen by the republican party a- 

^t^^^^^g^ tliiir i-aniliihit' t< • r -licritV "t tin- enmity 

/ and such was the li iirli estimation in 

> V which he was held that he was elected 

yr ftiw tn tin- iillii-i-. altliiuiuli n|i|>nsiil Iiv a very 

^Asj^ U ^^^ |in|inlar ^i-nth-ma tin- <i|i|m-ite s'nli' 

^^^a^am jM ^ ..| politic. A- -In -rill Mr. Ktuwn 1 i:i- 

M ^p \, i-il'nil tin- i\|iri-tati.'ti lit' hi- liirml- 

^H ^1 U ^r ami [irnvi-n himself a faithful ami i f- 

^H B IW k^^ ficient officer and well worthy of the oon- 

^ " t'nl. in-. of hi- fellow i-ili/i ii-. Mr. 

Keown is a member ol tin- Baptist 

P KBOWN SHERIFF OF OHIO COUNTY , i , .\ M t ;,. . 1 t 

church, ol tin Masonic traterniti and "t 
the Knights of Pythias, and socially possesses the respect and esteem of the entire people 
n| tin- county. 



BEAVER DAM 

I- in Ohio county, about nine miles from Rock port. It is a flourishing and growing town 
surrounded bj a fine farming country. The population at present is about sii hundred. 
When the Elizabeth town and Padueah railroad was built in 1869-70 it established a station 
at this poinl called Beaver Dam Station. A town sprang up around tin station ami soon a 

i siderable business became centered at this point until its arrival at it- present importanci 

a- a trade center for quite a large section of country. The town took it- name from a 
beaver dam, which, in tin- first settlement "f tin- country, existed on what was called B< 
Dam Creek from that fact In March, 1798, tin- Baptists built a church ami organised > 
congregation at the place which still exists as a ohurch organisation. Tin- business estab- 
lishments "l tin- town i -i-i of: Tin- Beaver I 'am Deposit Bank, organised nnder special 



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charter, its capital being twenty-five thousand dollars and surplus fund nine thousand 
dollars ; Mocker & Co., Hunt, Stewart & Leach and Bir & Chinn, general merchants ; there 
are two drug stores, three groceries, two confectioners, one steam laundry, two hotels, three 
physicians, one dentist and two lawyers. The churches are one Methodist, one Baptist and 
one Christian. The town has an excellent educational establishment. The Beaver Dam 
Seminary and Commercial Institute is an institution that has been brought to a high state 
of efficiency under the management of Prof. E. B. Ray, assisted by a corps of competent 
teachers in the various departments. The school is free, but embraces a department for 
advanced pupils in all the branches of higher education, including a business education. 
Special mention is made here of the business establishment of Hocker & Co., dealers in 
general merchandise, fine clothing, fine shoes, fashionable millinery and fine dress goods. 
This is the leading business firm in Beaver Dam. The business was first established in 
1882 by R. P. Hocker, J. W. Hocker and I. H. Baker. This firm was succeeded by 
Hocker & Co., consisting of R. I'. Hocker and John H. Barnes. In 1890 the present firm 
consisting of R. P. Hocker and E. P. Barnes, succeeded to the business, retaining the old 
firm name of Hocker & Co. This house transacts the largest business in Ohio county. 
Mr. R. P. Hocker, the senior member of the firm, is a native of the county, and has the 
confidence of the general public. 

ROCKPORT 

Is one hundred and eleven miles above Evansville. In 1817 Mr. Hugh Carter estab- 
lished a ferry across Green River at this point; the gradual addition of population increased 
SO that in 1870 the citizens applied for and were granted a charter by the legislature. Rock- 




W. M.'AND M. L SAUERHEBER S STEAMERS FRANK VON BEHREN AND LITTLE CLYDE. OP SPOTTSVILLE, 

port now is a thriving village of six hundred inhabitants, and is situated on a high hill in 
< >lii<> county, ou the right bank of Green river, overlooking both river and the eastern main 
stem of the Illinois Central railway. The town has fourteen business houses, doing a good 
business, handling a well selected variety of all classes of goods — one tobacco factory, one 



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-aw mill, one *_r r i ~ t null, two blacksmith shops, two livery stables, one barber >lm[>, one Bhoe 

shop, one batcher — 1 • « - j • . two g I hotels, two churoh< — Presbyterian and Baptisl — (the 

Methodists also have an organization, but bave losl their house by lire, two physicians, :i 
school building and a first-class school. Rockport i- a temperance ton a, having had no 

open sal i~ for over ten years. There has been a steady, substantial growth of popula- 

i ,and there ie not now a vacant dwelling "r business house i*i the town. 1 1 « r inhabitants 

are principally engaged in mercantile business, farming, timber, railroad and coal mining. 
No. II coal is opened in the town and No. 9 coal underlies the town. Shipping facilities 
are excellent, and freight rates reasonable. Tin' town government is composed of L. <J. 
Haden, O. T Bines and L. Ried, trustees ; G. M. Maddox, police judge, and G. N. Tilford, 
town marshal. The morale of the town is away above the average river and railroad town. 
I'm M> 1 1 1 \ i:\ Coal Ooiipa tnr, operating the MoHenry and Echols mines, the former 
about six and the latter about two miles from Rockport, on < In en River and on the line of 
the Illinois Central railroad, is the largest producer ol coal in Ohio county. Of the three 
hundred and sixty-eight thousand tons produced in the county, thiscompany produces nearly 

one hundred and four- 
teen thousand tons, or 
about one-third of the 
entire product of the 
county. 15otli mines, as 
stated above, are in N 
!• vein. I'll' M II' ary 
mine, six miles inland, 
i- entered by a slope 
nf two hundred feel t<> 
vein, which ie uniform 
throughout the entire 

field, sixtj i !■■ bon- 

di-i d feet below the Bur- 
face. The length of the 
main entrj is some tnur 
thousand feet, «iili 

working side entries ranging from one hundred to Bix hundred feet, and seventy- 
five working places. Pour Jeffrey electric mining machines are operated in this 
mine. The town of McHenry, a considerable settlement and trading point, is located 

principally mi the lands ol the company, altl u'li many persons own their own residence 

property. The population is about four hundred. The Presbyterians have a good church 
building and a flourishing congregation in the town, and the society of < >dd Fellows lia\ e ■ 

lodge with a membership of fifty. The town has a g I school building and free scl I. 

Echols mine, the propertj "t the same company, is on the Illinois Central railroad about 
two miles from the river, in the Bame vein. This mine, when Brat opened, was called the 
Rockport mine. It wasopened in 1872 by the Rockport Coal Company, composed of Smith, 
Keith ami Daugherty. This company operated the mine several years, then sold oat to the 
McHenry Coal Company. The vein rani.''- in thickness from four feet six inches to fimr 
feet ten, and i- reached by a shaft ninety feet deep. Pour link-belt (chain) and one Jeffrey 
machine are used in this mine. The field consists of one thousand acres to the rise from 




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PROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 97 

shaft. The main entry is about eight hundred yards and the largest cross entries one thous- 
and to twelve hundred feet, still driving; one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred 
and fifty working places. The improvements projected in the early future are a new main 
road of thirty pound iron and improvements around the bottom of the shaft to increase the 
capacity. Mr. Williams, mine foreman at the Echols, is a careful and experienced miner, 
a native of Scotland, and has been engaged in mining since the age of thirteen years in the 
coal fields of the Western district of Kentucky. 

Charles W. Taylor, the efficient superintendent of both the McHenry and Echols 
mines, lives in the town of McHenry, where he owns a pleasant home and other property. 
He, together with his excellent wife and family, take great interest in promoting the social, 
educational and religious welfare of the little town which contains his home. He is a 
native of Ohio county and has been with the company in one capacity or other for a period 
of fourteen years. 

CROMWELL, 

A town, and considerable trading and shipping point, is situated on the left bank 
of Green River in Ohio county, one hundred and fifty-one miles above Evansville. The 
population is about two hundred and fifty. The business at this point is transacted by W- 
N. Martin & Son, W. T. Tilf'ord, operating general stores; A. K. Leach, dealer in groceries, 
and V. Whalen and J. X. Taylor, dealers in drugs. The town has one church building 
(Union). It has a free school open five months in the year. Its principal market is Evans- 
ville The chief articles dealt in are: groceries, furniture, flour, hardware and stoves, all of 
which are bought of Evansville dealers and manufacturers. It is surrounded by a good 
farming country, and ships by way of the river largely of country produce and live stock. 



CENTERTOWN, 

In Ohio county, five miles from the river, is a very flourishing trade center for a fine 
section of farming country adjacent. Its shipping point is Ceralvo, one hundred and nine 
miles from Evansville. In common with other points in this section, its principal market 
is Evansville. The leading merchants are : Rowe & Martin and Morehead, Jones & Co., 
dealers in general merchandise ; L. C. Brown & Co., dealers in drugs, and W. A. Rowe, 
saddlery. It has a good free school and commodious church. 



CERALVO, 



One hundred and nine miles from Evansville, is in Ohio county. The merchants are : 
V. D. Fulkerson, dealer in general merchandise, and Dr. J. M. Everly, dealer in drugs, both 
of whom buy their goods mostly in Evansville markets. This point ships by the river a great 
deal of produce and live stock, and is the shipping station for the flourishing village of 
Centertown, five miles inland. 



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CALHOUN. 



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I ■ r 1 1 1 ■ ■ 



$] of the most 1 1 1 i-i \ i 1 1 ^ cities and trade centers of the Green River section, is 
situated on Green River, eighty miles from Evansville. It i- the < it\ Beat and 

ipal shipping and trading point of McLean county and has a population ■■( about 

one thousand souls. Nor 
does tlii- bust alone en- 
title ( ialhoun to a chief 
place among the towns 
oi the lower vallej ol 
< rreen River. Ii i- the 
seat "I intellectual and 
social forces, w hich ex- 
ercise a controlling in- 
fluenoe throughout tin- 
country. Both profi s- 

sion8, that of law ami 

medicine,are represented 

by men "t re than 

i' ii in in u ii talent ami 
ability. The scientific 
and literary tastes of ii- 
I" ople are of a lii^li 
order, and many exam- 
ples may l» found ■•( 
both mill ami women 
possessed of an unusual 
ill gree of mental cult- 
ure. The situation of 
tin t"U ii i- mainly upon 
level ground, sufficient!) 
inclined to the river, 
however, to secure por- 
drainage. The main 
street, w bich run- back 
(mm the river and Front 
street along 1 1 » « - river are 
ii|hiii a naturally grav- 
eled Burfaoe, making 
them ideal thorough- 
lares. There are mam 
j iiii i. sidencee !•• ar- 




COURT HOUSB AT CALHOUN 



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09 



iug testimony to the taste and home-pride of their owners. The town was incorporated 
in 1852, and received its name from one of its principal founders and leading citizens, 
Judge John C. Calhoun. Prior to that time the town bore the name of Vienna, but before 
it was christened Vienna, the settlement pased under different names until its history is 
lost in the uncertain traditions of pioneer occupancy and Indian warfare. 

On the hill west of the present location of the town is the site of the old fort or block 
house, which the early settlers erected for a defense against the attacks of the savages. The 
time of its erection is involved in mere tradition, as no records were kept by the adven- 
turous spirits who first ventured into the domain of the Red man of the forest, but it is 
conjectured, it was somewhere between the years 1775 and 1785. 

The City of Calhoun is surrounded by a splendid region of farming lands, which every 
year are becoming more valuable as the country develops and improves. These lands 




STREET SCENE IN CALHOUN 

yield abundantly almost every variety of crop, especially the cereals, grass and tobacco. 
The tobacco culture has been in a great measure neglected in the last few years on account 
of absence of demand for the heavy grade produced, but the growth of wheat, corn, oats 
anil grass has increased proportionately to the great advantage of the farmer. 

The business men and merchants of Calhoun will rank with the best in the whole 
Green River section or state, for their enterprise and the reliability of their commercial 
standing. There are a number, whose standing and business, as well as social importance, 
merit extended notice, hut the limits of this work will only admit of a brief catalogue of 
those who constitute the business element. Of these we mention: [. G. Gilmore, dealer 



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in general merchandise and produo — Mr. Gilmore also oondaota a Bton at Ashbysburgb — 
.1. Weil, general merchant J.T. Morehead >v Co., general merchant — tlii- firm operates 
branch stores at 8acramento, McLean county; Pleasant Ridge, Daviess county; Fordsville, 

<)liin county; Carneyville, Grayson 
county, and Grandview, [nd. •! W. 
Harrison & Son, groceries ; J. 1 >. Pruitt, 
groceries, hardware am! saddlery; W. 
II. Wall, groceries and hardware; T. N. 
Logsden, shoes; II. A. Peiffer, shoes i 
I 1 S. Loyd, shoes; B. G. Nofsinger, 
• li ii--. paints and "il- ; Howdon 
ETayden, drugs; 1". E. Porter, drugs ; 
Prank Sebald, livery; Jarvis & Porter, 
livery; -I"!!!! Ambrose, harness and 
saddlery. The city has excellent schools 
under the management <>t the city 
school board. The moral tone of the 
city is of the very best and it- people 
are a church supporting and church- 
going people. There are four churches, 
all nt which have resident pa-tor-. The 
hanking business of the city and country 
adjacent is done by the Bank of Cal- 
houn, whose management is al>ly con- 
served by that prinoi "t gentlemen, 
Judge William B. Noe, its president, and 
Mr. A. L. Museley, its obliging cashier. 
Among tin' important industries "I 
tlir city are three large tobacco ware- 
houses for curing, Btripping ami prizing 
tobacco; one large flouring mill ami 
saw-mill, under one management; one 
extensive wagon, repair ami blacksmith 
shop. There are three l"""I hotels ami 
number "I private boarding houses. 
( me "i tin- besl newspapers "f tin < ■>■ en 
River country, Uu Calhoun Star \- 
published Inn'. It- able editor ami 

proprietor I Swint, assisted bj 

hi- accomplished daughters, have made 
tlii- paper the standard authority li>r 
McLean comity nea -. 

B. I ■. N"i sikoeb — The people <>t 
Calhoun have realized the blessings which result from matured social conditions. Thej an 
open and frank in their deportment, hospitable in tlnir treatment "t strangers and exceed- 
ingly enterprising in business affairs. Tiny are proud "t tlnir city which they 




OROUH OP CALHOUN GIRLS 

MISS I.BONA TICHRNOR. HISS BIRINICI WEIL. 

MIS3 OABI HAMILTON. (UKIOirroWRl. HISS ANNBTTA TICR1N0R. 
MISS Kl l/.AHKTH OILMORB. 



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claim is the metropolis of the Green River country. There are many examples of 
successful business enterprise among them, hut we have space only to make individual 
mention of a few. All lines of trade are weil represented by pushing, active men. In 
the drug trade we mention especially Mr. B. G. Nofsiuger, who by reason o( his energy 
and strict devotion to business, has not only built up a splendid reputation — personally, as 
an accommodating trades- 
man, but owns and oper- 
ates a magnificent store 
that would do honor to a 
city. Mr. Nofsinger owes 
his success in business to 
bis own industry and in- 
dividual effort, having be- 
gun life without any capi- 
tal save his own faith 
in himself and a determi- 
nation to succeed. These 
qualities together with his 
unswerving personal in- 
tegrity has won for him 
the confidence of the pub- 
lic, and brought substan- 
tial returns in the estab- 
lishment of a flourishing 
business and the accumu- 
lation of a handsome prop- 
erty. 

BANK OF CALHOUN. 



The Bank of Calhoun, an 
illustration of whose build- 
ing appears herein was or- 
ganized in 1886, and began 
business January 3rd, 1887. 
It was the first bank in 
McLean county, and it has 
done a prosperous business from the beginning. Its first cashier and principal founder 
was John W. Moseley, now deceased. After his death, his son, Mr. A. L. Moseley, was 
elected to the position of cashier, which place he now holds. Judge William B. Noe is 
now and has been the president of the bank since its organization. He has been an active 
lawyer here for nearly thirty years and his long experience in that line has given him such 
a knowledge of the people of the county as to be of great value to him in the banking 
business. This is one of the solid institutions of the county and lias supplied a long-felt 
want to the business community. The directors of the bank are: I. G. Gilmore, R. C. 
Moseley, Thomas I. Bell, A. L. Moseley, and William B. Noe. 

The handling of the tobacco crop of McLean county gives rise to one of the most im- 




BANK OP CALHOUN 



lO- 



lll I m:EEN Riven IX*1 S I l:\ 



portant industries of the town. A great deal "I tlii> staple i- produced in the county, ami 
i- tin- source of verj important revenues to its people. Mr. W. T. Hobson and C. E. Hob- 
son are the largest and principal operators in handling the prodnot. \V. T. Hob on "|» rates 

two verj large factories, and C. E. Hobsoi together, handling as much a- cum- million 

pounds iii .1 season. Tin-'- gentlemen live in tin- town of Calhoun, and add much to its 
business and social consequence. A further description of the city "t Calhoun includes :i 

I view "f tin- town from 

tin- river front, Bhon ing 
j^ ili'- binds which lie in 

it- Dorthern limit- and 
beneath which nm- 
I' ronl street. 1 1 
blufh), hieing ;iml ov< r- 
looking tin- river, are 
crow in <l with residi i 
whose ) ards are adorned 
with ahade trees and 
parterres ol flowers. In 
general the streets "t the 
ton ii present a scene ■•! 
Pp" activity, evidencing a 

^ i |'i Y, ■ large volume "t trade. 

The store buildings of 
tin- leading merchants 
an spacious and well 
titt' il for the ' xigencii - 
of an extensn '■ busim 
A literan societj is 
maintained, and arranf 
in. nt- are being per- 
fected for the ' stabliah- 
nn'iit "t a free library 

and reading r < »n 

tin whole, it may be 
said of * alhoun thai all 
conditions prevail at 
to society, oulture and 
ililr physical surroundings necessary to make it a most delightful place >>t residence. 

It i- "i t the principal river towns and within easj reach <>t the cities of Evansville and 

Bowling Green bj water, and "l Owensboro bj stage, thus giving t" it- inhabitants con- 
venient communication with these larger centers "I activity. It may In- safely pre- 
1 that as the country develops Calhoun «ill receive larg< accessions t" it- population 
id business. 

Tli inntry on l".tli Bides of the river immediately surrounding the city is remarkably 

fertile and from an agricultural point of view, is just now undergoing rapid develop- 
ment. This country must at do distant daj becomi the home oi a denat agricultural 




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population. It is capable of sustaining an immense number of people and its nearness to 
the best of markets and facilities for cheap transportation make it the ideal land of promise 
tn the agriculturalist. A remarkable phase of the development now sitting in throughout 
the whole Green River section is the interest centering in education. This is evidenced by 
the number of schools and colleges and other institutions'with special objects in view, now 7 
being established all over the country. The city of Calhoun presents a location for an 
enterprise of this character surpassingly attractive. Its healthfulness and pleasing situation, 
make it one of the most eligible places tor a college in the whole Green River country. 



SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF CALHOUN. 

Mks. Naomi Tichenor, widow of T. C. Tichenor, deceased, a former prominent 
citizen and business man of the county, is a lady of high social standing and independent 
means. Her two daughters, Miss Lcona and Miss Annetta, who are shown in the group 




RESIDENCE OF MRS NAOMI TICHENOR. 

of Calhoun girls on another page, are students of Potter College, Bowling Green, and are 
universally esteemed for the many graces which adorn their characters. They are fitting 
representatives of the beauty and attractiveness of the womanhood of Calhoun. 

I. G. Gii.more, a leading citizen and merchant of Calhoun, has been a conspicuous 
figure in the Green River business world for a period of more than thirty years. He .. - 
built up, by a course of honest and fair dealing with his fellow men, a reputation for integrity ■ 
that secures the confidence of all. He is the head of a large and prosperous mercantile 
business in Calhoun and also at Ashbysburgh, ten miles below. He is one of the directors 
of the Bank of Calhoun. 



lo| 



II I (JKKKN I : I V I l: ■ "I \ I KV 




J'hk members of the learned profession throughout the section of Kentucky covered 

bj this work will compare favorably with those "t any portion ••( our countrj Si •• ■ ral <>l 

i the Green River country have produced nun who have attained eminence 

in both the legal and 
medical professions, in 
former j >< ■ r i< •< 1- and both 
the bar and medicine 
:i r<- dow represented by 
:i class of men >>t lii^'li 
attai ents in their call- 
ing. McLean county 

has its lull <|ii«>t:i "I rc|i- 

n w ntative men in l»'tli 
professions. In medi- 
cine without dispai 

IMBM lllt'llt t<> ntln l>, we 
t ■••it : 

Da II. W . <■ \n-. 

as ■ \ oung physician and 
gfl surgeon, who fitly adorns 

a profession that has 

9J iiumliiTfil among i i - 

- — * iiii'iiilii r> -(line of the 

atesf benefactors >>i 

the human race. Dr. 
Gates is a native <>i Calhoun, McLean county, where he was born in I860. He received 
his primary school training in the schools "t bis native town and graduated in ni«>I- 
icine in the medical department of Vanderbilt University in the class of l sv _. He 

then commenced the practii i medicine at Ben- 

nettsville, Christian county, where he remained a 
short time, and then took a post graduate course at 
Bellevue Hospital, New York, in 1884. Alter com- 
pleting the course at Bellevue be practiced for a 
-liciri period at Morgantown, Butler county, but in 
the >|iriiiL; of 1886 permanently located in bis native 
town of Calhoun, where be has conducted a large and 
successful practice down to the present lime. In 1885 
he married Miss Lama Slum, a m<>-t worthy young 

lady of Calhoun, tin- daughter of i "t it- oldest 

and most respected citizens, W. II. Shutt, the founder "t 
tin- Calhoun roller mills. Dr. Gates 1 grandfather on 
tin mother's Bide was Judge John C. Calhoun, fi>r 
whom the town was named. Dr. Gates has the dis- 
ti notion ol being the chairman of the McLean County 
Medical Board and is a member of the McDowell and 
Stab Medical Societies B NO fsinobr 



RESIDBNCB OF B G NOFSINOBR 




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Judge Wm. li. Noe, of Calhoun, Ky., was born July 24th. 1848, in Washington 
county, Ky. He is the second of three sons and four daughters, all living, born to .lames 
(i. and Eliza A. (Wilson) Noe, who were born respectively in Boyle and Washington 
counties, Ky. 'The Noe family came to 
the United States from Scotland and 
settled in Maryland. The mother of 
Wm. B. Noe was a daughter of John 
H. Wilson, who was a soldier of 1812, 
and fought in the battle of New Orleans. 
He was a son of Josiah Wilson, who 
was a soldier of the revolution. Win. 
B. Noe was reared on a farm and re- 
ceived a good English education, which 
he completed at Bethel College. He 
also reads and speaks the German lan- 
guage fluently. As a student in the office 
of Sweeney & Stuart, of Owensboro, 
Ky., he was admitted to the bar in that 
city February 14th, 1870, by Judges 
Cofer and Stites. In April of that year 
he located in Calhoun , Ky., where he 
has since practiced his profession with 
success and has been identified with 
the interests of the Green River country. 
He has never sought office, but on 
the contrary, has studiously avoided it, 

although he was at one time, by appointment, judge of McLean county court to fill an un- 
expired term. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Calhoun iu 1886 — one of the 

most solid institutions of the county, and is 
now and has been continuously its president. 
He is popular in his county, and commands the 
respect of all that know him. Judge Noe was 
married June 2d, 1870, to Mary A. Bender, 
a daughter of John and Ann Bender, natives 
of Bavaria, Germany, and Kentucky respectively. 
To Judge and Mrs. Noe have been born three 
children, but one living, Ora, who is married to 
Mr. A. L. Moseley, cashier of the Bank of Cal- 
houn. They have an adopted son, William, a 
nephew. Judge Noe, wife and daughter are mem- 
bers of the Christian church. 

A. L. Moset.ey, whose photograph appears 
on the following page, was born in Spencer 
county, Ohio township, Indiana, November 26th, 
1868. He received a good English education, 
which he completed at Ogden College, Bowling 



JUDGE WM B. NOE. 
PRESIDENT OF THE BANK OP CALHOUN. 











OUR BABY. JASON WILLIAM MOSELEY 

8 



106 



I II h i.l;ir\ RIVER <"<>< NTRY 




Green, Ky. After ilii- he took a business course and was graduated at the Evans- 
ville Commercial Col leg 3 M. Curnick, principal. He now resides in Ml. in oounty, 
Ky., and is the cashier of the bank of Calhoun, having been elected to thai position to 

succeed lii> father, the late John W Most - 
ley, who was one of the organizers and first 
cashier of thai bank. Mr. A. I.. Moseley 

is also a stockholder ami mir of tin- ili- 

rectors of the bank. He devotes bis entire 
linn- ami attention to bis duti< >. ami by lii- 
genial, obliging ami ac amodating man- 
ners, baa won many warm friends to the in- 
stitution. He 1S a first-class business man. 
i- accurate, careful, painstaking, ami is 
regarded as one "f tin- beat bank cashiers 
in the Green River country. He has the 
interests of the Green River section and its 
development very much at heart ami _ 
bis hearty encouragement t" anj < nter- 
prise looking to tlii- end. Mr. Moselej 
was married in 1891 to Miss Ora Noe, tin- 
daughter and only child of Judge Win. B. 
Noe, tin- president "t the bank. To tlii- 
union have been born three children, 
Ruth, decease 'I ; Jason W . ami Paul. 

Judgi Hi \ I". Landrum, a prominent citizen of Calhoun, and for main years judgi 

of il mty court of McLean oounty, \\a~ born in Daviess county, in 1845. When the 

county of McLean was formed in 1854 out oi portions "t Daviess and Ohio oounties, his 
lather's farm fell in tin- mu political division. Ben I grew to manhood on lii- lather's 
farm, ami received bis education in the common Bchools "t tin state. He began lii- l>u>i- 

ii. -- career a- a tar r, taking a lively interest in public affairs, being especially active in 

the interests of the dei sratic party. In 1869 he was elected a magistrate of the county, 

which office In- filled for sixteen years. In 1887 he was elected county judge of McLean 
county, filling that office bo acceptably that he was chosen tor a second term, thus serving 
tin people for ten years in a position requiring tin- exercise of rare talent and ability. 
Owing to fusion arrangements in 1897 between tin 1 democratic |>artv ami populists, the 

candidacy for i u\ judge on the fusion ticket was given to the populists, and Judge 

Landrum was lefl out. 1 1 • - retires t ■ > private life carrying with him tin- universal respect 

ami approval ol tin- people of his o ity. A- a public servant In- has at all times justified 

the trust reposed in him, ever attentive to dutj ami mindful of lii- official obligations. 

Judge Landrum's lathi r, Thomas Landrum, was sheriff of < >|ii unty when it comprised 

all the territory non occupied by Ohio, Daviess and McLean < nties. Winn Daviess was 

organised he was elected sheriff of that county, and when McLean was formed he was el 
Bheriffofit — serving in that capacity altogether twenty-eight years. He died in i 

.Iri"i \\ . A. Taylor — Mr. Taylor lia.- mu n ii i\i<l his title because he has worn tin' 
judicial toga Better than that, his fine judicial mind, his knowledge of th< law and digni- 



A L MOSBLBY. 
CASBIIR Or TBI BANK OF CALHOUN 



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JUDGE W, A TAYLOR 



Bed bearing have served to point him out to his associates of the bar and to his fellow citi- 
zens generally as the possessor of every qualification that enters into the character oi the 
able and upright occupant of the judicial bench. Hence his title. Mr. Taylor is a native 
of McLean county and is distinctively a type of the self- 
made man. His opportunities for education and social 
advancement were exceedingly limited, but with an 
earnest and determined purpose to qualify himself for a 
useful life, he applied himself to study, and with such 
success that he acquired a first-rate English education. 
While still a young man, his character and qualifications 
recommended him to the school authorities of his 
county, and he accepted the position of a teacher in the 
public schools. He continued teaching in the public 
schools for a period of ten years, applying himself mean- 
while to the study of the law. In furtherance of his 
design to fit himself for the legal profession, he entered 
the law office of Judge J. C. Johnson, and after some 
time spent under his preceptorship was admitted to 
the bar of McLean county in 1883. Judge Taylor has 
throughout his career, displayed that capacity for use- 
fulness among his fellow citizens that has continually 
kept him in their service. As teacher, as county surveyor, and lastly as a faithful and able 
lawyer, he merits and receives the universal approbation of the people of his native 
county. In 1 897, without seeking it, he was nominated by the republican party of the 
county for the olfice of county judge, but in the election which followed was defeated by 
the fusion of the democrats and populists, who succeeded in electing their candidate. He 
received the full vote of his party, which was a flattering testimonial to his worth and popularity. 

John W. Moseley, now deceased, late of 
Calhoun, Ky., was born in Daviess county, Ky. 
He was the eldest of four sons and five daughters 
born to William J. and Elizabeth H. (Atherton) 
Moseley, both of whom were born in Daviess 
county, Ky. John W. Moseley was reared on a 
farm until eleven years of age. His father then 
located at Livermore, on Green River, and en- 
gaged in wagon-making and in the hotel and 
grocery business. He received a fair English 
education. The civil war coming on he enlisted 
in the army of the United States October 21st, 
lNlil, in Company A, Twenty-sixth Kentucky In- 
fantry, under Capt. John W. Belt. He was en- 
gaged in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Nash- 
ville, the siege of Corinth, and numerous skirm- 
ishes ; was promoted sergeant-major in the spring 
of 18(i4; in April, 1865, for meritorious service 
rendered was commissioned first lieutenant. In 




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the beginning "I the war be was nnder General Biu-ll. Imt later was in the Twenty- 
third Arm\ Corps; was discharged Aogust 1st, 1865. \t the close of the war he returned 
to his home ai Livermore, where h< resided and was I as a salesman until 1875. H< 

then removed t" Evansville, fnd., where be was engaged in the wholesale house of Ragon 

Bros, as bill olerk until 1879. He then returned i" 
Livermore, and with his brother, engaged in the mer- 
cantile business under the firm name of Moseli j I 
In 1881 the firm located with its business in Calhoun. 
In 1886, he, with others, organized the Bank "I Calhoun 
ami became it- cashier and remained in thai position 
until his death, April lTtli. 1890. ll> was genial, ac- 
commodating, energetic and regarded as >>i t the best 

business men of the Green River country. Mr. Moselej 
was married December 18th, 1867, t" Mi-- Georgians 

Moore, ol Bpe r t\. [nd., a daughter of John M. 

^Mm and Eliza \ Moore, "I Hamilton county, Ohio. To 

mp m ^V ''''"■ ""'"" "' r '' '""'" ~ lN,n <"liildrrn, Arthur I.r-li.. 

\ ^^^^^^Jf Eddie and Lillian, both deceased, Grace, Mattison 1!.. 

^P^*^^ j .lulin Miltmi an<l < IciirL'ia. 

I' 




GEO F SW1NT. 
■ DITOR AND PROPRIETOR CALHODN 8TAR 



Dr. J. I". Hathes, of Calhoun, Ky., was born Feb- 
ruary 5th, 1841, in < Irays tountj . Ky., and is ■ bou of 

Henry and Lurana (Dewees) Haynes, who were born 
in < )hiu and < Iraj - unties respectively. I >r. 1 laj nee 

was reared on a farm until twelve years of age, when his parents moved to Cloverporl and 

five Mar- later to Litchfield, Ky. In 1862 the doctor moved to Whitesville, Ky., wh< re be 

toiik oharge of a scl I for -i\ yean 

In 1867 with Rev. Bernard Sickel, he 

took charge ol Hart's seminary, Owens- 

boro, Ky.: he afterward went t" Palls 
• Rough, in Grays sounty, and took 

oharge of a school ; Boon after this be 

was appointed school commissioner "f 

the county. This position he resigned 

in 1870, and took charge of Cromwell 

seminary; in 1*7.". be removed to Hart- 
lord, Ky., and was there engaged as 

principal of the college for two years; 

thence to I>i\'>n. where be taught until 

the tall ol 1876, when li«' attended the 

Medical University of Louisville, and 

afterwards i ngaged in the practice of 

medicine at l>ix<m, Poole's Mills and 

Mt. Vernon, In. I. In 1884 he located 

at Calhoun and tm.k oharge of the col- 
lege. Il< baa taken a Real inten 

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in education. His English education was completed at Mt. Alba college. He has con- 

ducted institute- and normals since 1871. He is at present the superintendent of schools 

for McLean county, and it is said of him by those who are judges that he is one of the best 

superintendents in the state. Dr. Haynes 

was married October 18th, 1860, to Miss 

Laura B. Robinson, of Grayson enmity, and 

to them have been born five children, Dr. W. L. 

Haynes, of Owensboro, Ky.; Dr. Eugene E. 

Haynes, of Memphis, Tenn., Lelia, Mary and 

Kate D. Dr. Haynes and wife are both 

members of the Christian church. 







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J 





JOE H. MILLER. ESQ.' 



Joe H. Miller, a leading attorney of 

Calhoun, was born on a farm in Ohio county, 

April 12th, 18(30. He began his education in 

the common schools of Ohio and Daviess jM 

counties and completed his higher studies at 

West Kentucky College. After completing 

his course at college he began the study of law 

in the office of Judge Wm. B. Noe, of Cal- 
houn, pursuing the same diligently for some 

time. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 

and soon took rank as one of the foremost lawyers of the county. In 1886, he was elected 

superintendent of schools of McLean county, serving as such for the term of four years. 

In 1890 he was elected county attorney, which office he filled with credit to himself and 

satisfaction to the people. In 1888 Mr. Miller married Miss Lizzie Shutt, daughter of W. 

H. Shutt, one of the pioneer settlers of 
the county. He was succeeded in the 
office of county attorney by the present 
incumbent, Mr. Lee Gibson, and on re- 
tiring resumed his private practice, in 
which he is now engaged. Mr. Miller's 
talent and ability as a lawyer is well known 
and he is in the enjoyment of a most lu- 
crative practice. 

Lee Gibson, or>e of McLean county's 
representative citizens, is a young man 
whose character and talent have already 
won for him distinguished consideration at 
the hands of his fellow-citizens. He is the 
present county attorney of McLean county, 
which office he has filled with singular 
fidelity since his election, in 1894. Such 
has been his faithfulness and ability in the 
discharge of the duties of the office, 
lee gibson. county attorney tliat tue people of all parties acquiesced 




lln TIIK QBKEB l:ivri: COUNTRY 

in hi- re-election in 1897. Mr. <;ili-mi i- a native "f McLean county. He was born near 
Calhoun on March 6th, L868. He received lii- primary education in the common schools 
of the county, afterward attending the colleg Ogden at Bowling Green, in 1886-7, and 

Bethel, in 1888-9. Hi spent some time in teaching, but determined to adopt the law as a 
proft Bsion, and entered the law office "t G. I * Sarey, "t < Jalhoun, where he applied himself 
to the study of hia choran profession. He was admitted to the bar in 1891, and t< >< >k rank 
:n once as a brilliant and capable lawyer. In 1896 be married Mi— Mollie Haynes, au 
estimable young lady, also u native of McLean county, the daughter of l»r. .1. I'.. Haynes, 

the present county superintendent <>f bcI Is. ^ I ■ Gibson is a member of the Masonic 

fraternity and also ol the Knights of Honor and 8igma Nu society. In every relation of 

lite In- has fulfilled tin duties of an upright 

^^^ Christian gentleman. Mr. (iilisuii ha- a 

* * **^ ^k lni_'ht career l>eliire him. ami i- an nrna- 

^^^k mi-lit t<> thr l!ivi-r country, with 

Jr ML which In' i- pri.ml t.i tcel himself itlcntitietl. 



% 



W I >. Shutt— Among tin- many 
bright young men of McLean county, 
upon whose shoulders the future of the 
country rests, W. 1'. Shntt deserves notice. 
» Although, scarcely thirty years of 

^^H ^—^T In- has proven hiin-clt' tin- pos-cs-or of 

^A\ T^—^f ^^^ thu-c ( |iialitiis which attract thr c-ti. in ami 

^—4 I j/A ^^_ «•« •nliili'ii t" his fellow-men. Pleasant in 

^^k ^^L |^^^ ^^^^ i|< ii-ivc in |iiir|Mi«c ami a<- 

\W n tinii, nature ha- well littcil him for useful- 

« ^f*^. ness as a citizen. Mr. shntt was born on 

»^j » it MJJ •' farm in McLean county Nuvcmlier 11th. 

\jfjf f ^^^ lsiiT.lnit was liruiiirht up ami reareil in 

^^* ^^^^ Calhoun, to which place hi- family re- 

W.D v^ourtclkrk moved -""" :l,,,r hifl Wrth. Hi- fatlur. 

\\ . II. Shutt, was a prominent citizen 
of the county and carried on the business of farming, besides owning and operating 
tin- Calhoun roller flouring mill and saw mill. W. D. received his primary 
school training in the common schools of Calhoun. He entered Ogden College, Bowl- 
i, in 1887, where he remained t«" years, going thence to Bethel College, at 
which place In completed a scientific c ae in 1890, becoming a member while at the lat- 
ter college of the ' Ireek letter Sigma Nu fraternity. < >n the death of his father, which oc- 
curred July 26th, 1890, be took charge of the mill- ami superintended their operation until 

the tall nt I*!""-', when he was chosen bj the people of McLean < nt\ to the office of county 

court clerk, to fill the unexpired term of Geo. 8. Priest, deceased. In November, 1894, he 
was again elected to the office and was re-elected in November, l s,, 7 Mr. Shutl 
is a member of the Baptist church and ol the Masonic fraternity. Be also belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias and the Knights of II r. 

Lauki m i P. Tanner \ leading lawyer and citizen "I McLean county, was horn 
mi a farm mar Livia. in said county nil the l'»th day "t January, 1868. !!■ received his 



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Ill 




L P. TANNER, ESQ 



early school training in the common schools of the county, and completed his education at 
the Southern Normal College, of Bowling Green. He studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in L889. He located in Calhoun and soon rose to prominence in his profession. He 
married Miss Eunice Porter, an accom- 
plished young lady and member of a 
prominent McLean county family in 1895. 
The following year he was brought out by 
his friends as a candidate for nomination 
by the democratic party for congress in his 
district, but failed of the nomination. He 
is still prominently spoken of for nomina- 
tion at the next succeeding election for 
that office. He has takeu an active interest 
in the polities of the county and has been 
prominent in the counsels of the demo- 
cratic party since he came to manhood. 
In connection with the law practice he has 
been very zealous in promoting the sale 
and settlement of a large tract of land 
near Calhoun, which, before his manage- 
ment, was considered almost worthless, but 
which now is regarded as the best land in 
this section of the state. 

Henry Baeeentine, Sr., is a prominent figure in the Green River country, by reason 
of his business activity, and the interest betakes in promoting the good of his section. Mr. 

Ballentine was horn in the county of Tyrone, 
Ireland, in 1837, and came with his parents to 
America, in May, 1849, settling at Rumsey, on 
Green River. Here he engaged with his father 
in (arming, in which business he has continued 
since, engaging, however, in many other enter- 
prises that gave scope to his activity. He 
owned the steamer Gayoso at one time, and has 
been instrumental in forwarding many other 
enterprises that have tended to advance the in- 
terests of the country. At the close of the civil 
war Mr. Ballentine found himself like many 
others — without means and dependent upon his 
own labor for a new start in life. But undis- 
couraged by the prospect, he went manfully to 
work farming, and such has been his success 
that he is now the possessor of two thousand 
acres of farm lands, besides valuable real estate 
in the towns of Calhoun and Rumsey. Mr. 
Ballentine has been twice married. His first 
wife was Miss McGrcw, of McLean county, who 




CAPT HENRY BALLENTINE 



TIIK CKKK.N RIVEIt OOUSTBT 

gave ti i in tour children, three jrirl- and one boy. Hi- second wife was Mi— Jo-ie 
Landrum, of 1 1 1 « - same •■■unity, who bore bim one ohild, a son. Mr. Ballentine live* on 
lii- farm in 1 1 1 • - environs of the town "l Rumsey, which baa been lii- home since he 
became a citizen of the land whicb be loves. Bere he enjoys the fruits of a well-epenl 

life, and -urr ded by friend.- ami neighbors of l->ti<r acquaintance, i- gliding into the 

calmness of a serene old ag 



McLEAN COUNTY 



f. f. )TAS organized in I 85 I out of portions of I taviess, Muhlenburgh ami < thio counties, 1 1 
\\ was named in honor of Judge Alnej McLean, then judge of the judicial circuit of 
which the new county became a part. The county baa an area of about four hundred aquare 
mil. -.ami a population of fifteen thousand people. ' hreen River flows nearl] centrally through 
the count] from east to west. ' ttiio county lies along ii- eastern border and Muhlenburgh 
it- southern. Daviess adjoins it on tin- north, ami Webster ami Henderson on the west. 
This count] contains a greater proportion of level lands than any "f tin- counties hitherto 
considered. The bottom lands of Green River Int.- begin toezpand, presenting larger 
ana- of alluvial soil ezceedingly productive. Tin- second bottoms are of almost equal 

fertility, and the ridges ami higher table-lands possess a i: 1 soil, yielding fair crops. 

Although one of the smallest nties on tin- river, McLean makes a very n spi ctable show- 
ing along-side her Bister counties in regard to her staple products. Among the nine coun- 
ties considered in tlii- work Bhe -t 1 fourth in the production "I toba in 1889 Her 

wheat crop exceeded that "l Butler and Ednionson ami nearly equaled that of <»|ii,,. Hei 
productions of corn, oats, hay and wool compare fiivorably with those of the larger coun- 
ties. Improvements in forming methods, the draining of bottom lands and tl pening of 

new farm- ha- greatly increased thi _ >t. of agricultural products in the county, and it 

itimated that for 1896 the percentag f gain is fort] per e.-m over the figures of the 
census year, lie- grain ami grass-producing quality of its soil renders the oounty peculiarly 
lit for the raising ami breeding of stock, ami tin largest increase in production has been in 
the items "i beef cattle ami fat bogs. The county rests upon the coal m< asures "f tie \V. -t- 

ein District, which may be reached from almost any point o| it- surface. Less attention. 

however, ha- been given to the development of thi- interest than in the adjoining counties. 
There are onlj two mines reported in operation, both of which are located at [aland on the 
i » a \. division of thi I. a V railroad. The entire output for 1896 i- given at tw» nty- 
lour thousand ton-. This does not include the coal taken out in different part- of the 
oounty tor domestic use. 



I.e.. - inr $4 

Value ol product! * I I 

NuiiiIkt . . I. i-i Oorn, Buahati 



McLEAN COUNTY PRODUCTS. 

113 Wl,.-:,1. ♦•.HI 



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113 



Oats, Bushels 43,310 

Irish Potatoes, " 15,189 

Sweet Potatoes, " 3,462 

Peaches, " 6,031 

Apples, " 70,501 

Wool, Pounds 13,288 

Honey, " 18,341 

Tobacco, " 2,204,276 

Bees' Wax, " 485 

Eggs, Dozen, 159,079 



Hay, Tons, . 4,996 

Coal, " 35,177 

Coal, value $41,199 

LIVE STOCK. 

Horses, Number 2,836 

Mules, " 951 

Hogs, " 17,188 

Sheep, " 3,523 

Chickens, " 81,569 



LIVERMORE, 

An important manufacturing and trading point on Green River, is in McLean county, 
and is located in a section rich in coal and timber. It is situated on the right bank of 
Green River at the mouth of Rough River, eighty-eight miles from Evansville. The 
Owensboro and Nashville branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroad crosses the river 
at this point. The population is about six hundred and fifty. The trade of the town de- 
pends on a good farming country on both sides of Green River and extending along Rough 
River. The lumber interests of the place give employment to a large number of people 
and a number find em- 
ployment in the tobacco 
stemmeries, of which 
there are two of con- 
siderable magnitude. 
There are three saw 
mills in constant opera- 
tion, cutting an immense 
amount of hard wood 
lumber. The Gieseke 
Shingle Company oper- 
ate a saw mill in con- 
nection with their shin- 
gle industry. Their 
principal business is, 
however, the manu- 
facture of poplar and 
chestnut shingles. They have an extensive trade for their product with Evansville, 
Louisville, Chicago, Buffalo and other large markets north and east. R. E. Hackett is the 
operator of a saw mill and spoke factory. His saw mill has a capacity of seven thousand 
feet of lumber daily. In connection with his saw mill Mr. Hackett operates machinery for 
the manufacture of hickory buggy spokes and oak rims in block for wagons. The prox- 
imity of these works to the hardwood forests of Green and Rough Rivers gives an advantage 
over similar establishments more remote, which is seen in their exceptional prosperity. 
A great portion of the product of the Hackett mills is transported by steamboat and barges 
owned by the proprietor, to Evansville and thence distributed by rail to markets in the north. 
There are three general stores, several groceries, two drug stores and several smaller 




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II I 



I HI OR] EN 1 : 1 \" 1 l: COUNT M 



shops, covering all lines "I trade. Quigg Bros., dealers in general merchandise, transact :i 
large business. They are an old established h< m~.- and carry a l:irj^«- and varied stock <•♦' 
goods suited t.. the wants of the trade. They handle produce "I" all kind- and make Evans- 
ville tlnir principal market, giving to Evansville merchants and manufacturers the prefer- 
ence when possible. They have a verj comi lious new 1 >ri«-k Btore building, fitted with 

every convenience necessar) to conduct a large busini -- Moselej Bros, are extensive 
dealers in general merchandise and enjoj a large and growing trade. Their doable store 
building is well adapted to the needs of their business and the two brothers constituting 
the firm enjoy an enviable reputation as progressive nun. They are connected with the 

Ice Shingle Co., in the operation of that extensive c >ern. E. B. Haokett is also :i 

large dealer in general merchandise, operating an establishment "t extensive dimensions. 
The following are the principal other establishments of the town : W. B. Trunnell, \\ E, 

Lashbrooke and K. O. Gore, groceries , G 8 Hicks and J. F. 8mith, drugs. J. W. G I- 

inan operates 1 1 1 « - only livery stable, and the 
Misses \I < >-i • l«-\ and Bell the only millini r\ 
and dress making establishment. The 
practicing physicians are: •>. A. Hillsman, 
L. R. Bennett and W. P. Ellis, There is 

CJoion church, occupied bj Methodists, 

Presbyterians and others and one Baptist 

church. There are two scl I buildings. 

A free scl I i~ maintained for five 

months in the year. A private seminar} 
is conducted by Prof. V « ton. 

II ' > SCHBOEI i i: is known tlin.ii-li- 
out the • Ireen River country as " The 
Artist "i the Emerald Wave." He has a 
Boating studio, with which he \i-it- the 
towus and hamlets on the rivers, execut- 
ing work in every branch "f the art "f 
photography. His commodious water craA 
i~ fitted up with rooms, embracing parlor, 
sitting room, dining room, bed rooms and 
kitchen, in addition t" a working room 
and artist's studio. He has everj ap- 
pliance necessary to the business, and bia work will compare favorably with that of the 
most distinguished proli — re of the art His excellent wife accompanies him on his voy- 
, presiding over and reudering compleb the "home" department "I bis establishment. 
Many of the views in ilii» work are from the studio "t Mr. Schroeter, to whom the publish* rs 
are under obligations for favors. 

I -i \ \ i> Btation, on ih«' Owensboro and Nashville branch oi th< I .. a \. railroad, is 
three miles inland from Livermore, on the opposite Bide of the river. There are three coal 
mines in operation here, viz.: The Field Coal <'".. thi MoEinnej & Stanley Coal Co. and 
the Reuben Karnes. These mines are all working No. 9 vein and give employment to one 
hundred miners. The product, except for local use, is marketed south. 




H O SCHROBTBR. PHOTOORAPHBR 
PROPH1ITOR FLOATING STUDIO 






FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



115 



SACRAMENTO, 

McLean county, nine miles south of Calhoun and nine miles north of South Carrollton, 
which is the nearest railroad point, is connected by long-distance telephone with the general 
system. The population is about six hundred. The town was laid off in 1854 by George 
Helm. It is surrounded by a rich farming country to which it is indebted for its commer- 
cial importance. The town is incorporated under the state law, and has a municipal 
government, represented by mayor, common council, police judge, city attorney, city clerk 
and treasurer. There are five churches — the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian (white), 
also one Baptist and one Methodist (colored); all have resident pastors. There are two 
good school buildings, one white and one colored, in which free schools are maintained for 
five months in the year. In addition to the free schools, the Sacramento Academy is con- 
ducted by able teachers under a system of graded work during the interval between sessions 
of the free schools. The commercial interests of the town are represented by the following 
firms: Coffmau Brazzel Company, Stroud Bros, it Ross, M. H. Gabbart, E. F. Short, dry 
goods and general merchandise; Mclntire & Quisenberry, drugs and groceries; M. L. Board 
& Son, groceries and drugs; John Medley, groceries; J. T. Morehead, undertaker ; T. C. 
Ellison, agricultural implements and machinery; J.N. Dossett, livery; Miss Mattie Bennett 
and Miss Minnie Eads, millinery. The industries of the town consist of one flouring mill, 
with a capacity of forty barrels, operated by D. W. Gish and J. G. Igleheart. They also 
operate a saw and planing mill. A. J. Frazier and E. C. Frazier, blacksmith and repair 
shop; Ad Parker, blacksmith. The physicians are: Dr. B. H. Morehead, Dr. H. Mooman 
and Dr. C. Robison. The two tobacco factories are operated by Martin & Shanks and 
W. Martin. There are two hotels, the Bland, conducted by Mrs. Jane Bland, and the 
Ellison, conducted by Mrs. Sue Shacklett, and several private boarding houses. G. F. 
Dossett, live stock dealer. The Sacramento Deposit Bank is operated under a special 
charter — G. W. Martin, president, and F. P. Stumb, cashier. W. L. Mclntire, jeweler and 
barber. Sacramento does 
a large business in river 
shipment, Evansville 
getting the principal 
part of its trade. 




RUMSEY, 

Is situated at Lock 
No. 2, on the left bank 
of Green River, in Mc- 
Lean county, eighty 
miles above Evansville. 
The population is about 
four hundred. It has a 
good free school and two 
churches. The country 
adjacent is well adapted to farming, the soil being the rich alluvial deposits of the Green 
River bottoms. The trade of Rumsey is in supplies for the farming population and in the 



LOCK AND DAM NO- 2. AT RUMSEY. 






116 



1111 OR] l\ RIV1 R . ..1 NTRY 



produce • >( the farms. Cofrman Bros., Hays A Viokers, W. 8. Clark. Wilburn*£ Bam k, 

ami M J, <i Iloe are dealers in genera] merchandise and produce. The industries of the 

place are a Souring mill, a -aw mill and a woolen mill and carding machine. 

A-iihy-i-.i bob i- in Hopkins coonty. Gilmon >v Lunk, general merchants and Mr-. 
James Boagland, millinery and notions. There is a Methodist church, a free school and a 
aaa mill owned bj Coffmao & Hancock. V. L. Arnett, farmer, is a leading citizen. 

Win 1 1 -i:i i;i.n. (Lemon P sin McLean county. This place i- a trading j»< >i n t 
and landing sizty-sis miles from Evansville. I. Bay, dealer in general merchandise 
operates a Btore at this point. 

Wbiohtsbi ia. h. McLean county, is situated sixty-five miles above Evansville. The 
country back of the landing is well settled and in good state of improvement. Two miles 
inland is the town "I Beech Grove, which is quite a trading point. Geo. E. Cline is the 

proprietor ■>( an extensive handle factory at Wrightsburgh. Beech Grove is a < Biderable 

village, having a population <>t' some three hum I nil people. The merchants of Beech Grove 
are: M.<i. Aahby, J. T. Smith, W. II. Hardin, Mattingly & Cline and 8. K. Waltrip. 

Rays Landing, McLean county, sixty-four miles above Evansville, also a landing 

for • iongleton, a point "in- mile inland ami the locati f 1'. 1'. < toleman, dealer in gem ral 

merchandise ami country produce. 



WEBSTER COUNTY. 



A|i.I<)1\^ Henderson on the south and McLean on the east, Green river forming the 
boundary between it ami the latin- county. The county has bul aboul fifteen miles 

of water frontage. Hopkin untj has aboul tin- -aim', a large trade reaches the river 

from these two couuties, at Aahbysburgh, which is an extensive shipping point for livestock 
ami general produce. Sebree City i- quite a flourishing place in Webster county, Bituated 
about three miles inland on the lineoi tin Evansville, Henderson ami Nashville branch of 
the Louisville .v Nashville railroad. The coal output of tin- count] for 1 — * * « ; was about 
51,000 tons, from four mines, two at Providence, Taylors and Sebree mines. The count} 
is a large producer of tobacco, which i- the leading product. It stands well up in the 
cereals marketed, showing the yield • >( wheat, corn ami oats t<- !»■ larj 



WEBSTER COUNTY PRODUCTS. 
Parma Number . . . i 

\, ,. \. r. - .... 108 

i ora, Buaheli 1,051 

i '..!-. •• • 

Wheat, ■ ■ • 1 - 

tppli ■ ■ - :• 

r. , 

lri-1. I "...... 

Bw« > Potatoes, " . . . 



i 
Wool, 



I'l.iimU 



I 



H.. I.. 
Ooal, 



1 [otM, 

Bheep, 

Kill-, 



Ponnda 

Ton- . . . 

■i 

LIVE STOCK. 
Number 



1"7 



16,610 

11-. '.U7 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 117 

SEBREE CITY 

Was first settled in 1869. Was laid off and began t<> attract settlers when the Louis- 
ville and Nashville railroad was Ideated through the county. The location of the town was 
due to the existence of mineral springs at this point. The name of the location before the 
advent of the railroad was Spring-dale. The present population of the town is about two 
thousand. The town is incorporated under the general law of the state. The municipal 
government is composed of a mayor, common council, city clerk, police judge and city 
attorney. The town has a system of graded schools, under the management of a school 
board of six trustees. The schools are supported by state revenues, and are free for five 
months. A session of three months in addition is maintained by tuition i'vrs paid by the 
patrons of the school. There are four churches, Baptist, Methodist, Christian and Catholic. 
The commercial interests of the town are represented by the following merchants: Sebree 
Dry Goods Co., composed of B. F. Jewell, S. F. Powell and A. B. Sellers; S. E Horner, 
Thomas Keane, Cox & Bro. and C. S. Cox, all handling dry goods; J. W. Springfield, 
groceries and drugs; W. I. Smith, groceries and drugs; P. Countzler & Son, drugs; Cox 
Bros., furniture and groceries; Ramsey & Hampton, groceries; Charles Cox, groceries; John 
A. Turpin, groceries; James Pearce, groceries; J. B. Yonts, saloon; J. Crysell, saloon; U. 
H. Royster, musical instruments; J. C. Wright and William McMullen, undertaker-; Miss 
Nannie King and Mrs. Fannie Ward, millinery; Frank Edwards, merchant tailor; Vaughn 
& Riddle and W. R. Clark, livery and sale stables; Sebree Deposit Bank, John A. Powell, 
president, and G. C. Skudmore, cashier, is operated under special charter. There are two 
hotels, the Phoenix and the Miller Hotel, the latter operated by an enterprising and most 
estimable lady, Mrs Helen Miller, is the popular resort of the traveling public. J. C. 
Yonts, local meat market, and dealer in live stock, poultry and hides. The industries of 
the town are represented by the following establishments: Five tobacco factories giving 
employment to three hundred and seventy-five operatives and handling some three million 
pounds of tobacco annually. These factories are operated by A. M. Riddle, T. J. Simple, 
J. B. Ramsey, J. A. Powell & Son, and A. J. McMullen, manager for J. D. Burr Reeves; 
one roller mill, operated by J. B Ramsey; one saw and planing mill, operated by S. R. 
Horner; one planing, scroll and lath mill, operated by Daniel McMullen; one coal mine, 
operated by Sebree Coal Company; Frank Berry, blacksmith and repair shop; one wagon 
manufactory and blacksmith shop, operated by Webb & Springfield, makers of the cele- 
brated Sebree wagon. The physiciaus are Dr. R. L. Agnew, Dr. C. Edwards, Dr. W. 
Edwards. Dr. Joel Parker and Dr. George Osborn. The Freemasons, Odd Fellows, 
Knights of Pythias, K. G. C. and K. of H. all have flourishing organizations. The Sebree 
Herald, George S. Beard, editor and proprietor, is a live local, weekly newspaper devoted 
to the interests of the section, and the only newspaper published in Webster county. 

EASTWOOD, sixty miles above Evansville, is quite au important shipping point and the 
center of a growing trade. The country near it is very productive. Cattle, hogs, sheep, 
poultry and eggs are the principal articles of commerce. It is the landing for Sebree 
City, which is about two miles inland. A gnat deal of freight is landed here by the boats 
for Sebree City. J. T. Cox is the principal merchant at Eastwood, dealing in dry goods, 
groceries, drugs and general merchandise. He handles all kinds of country produce. 






lis 



I III ..LI I s RIVER COUN1 BY 



DAVIESS COUNTY 



Lll'.s ii, \t to McLean on the north. The count) was organized in 1815 and named in 
honor "I Col. Joseph Hamilton I »;i-v.i« — . a distinguished lawyer, \\li" had Berved as 

United States attorney for the Btate - after its admission into the union in 1 7 ". • "J . Col. 

Daviess represented the United Stal rnmenl in it- attempt t" indicl the celebrated 

Aaron Burr for high treason in 1806. He was killed a1 the battle ol Tippecanoe in 1811. 
The county of Daviess has a frontage on Green River >>( about thirty miles. The I 
interests "f the count) , however, li«' upon the < > I » i • • River, w bich flows "ii it- northern bord< r. 
The lands of the count) are generall) level, fertile and well cultivated. Those lying con- 
tiguous t<> < ireen Rivi r are well adapted t" the growth of corn, wheat and tobai - \ era] 
important trading j >< > i r 1 1 - on the river transact a large business in the shipment of these 
products, and in supplying the Burrounding country with needed commodities. Almost all 
the business ;it these points is done in the markets of Bvansville. 



1 3.7'".* 

I • 



118 

VE STOCK. 

- 
I 

L' 1 1 

l»i i \u m:i . Davieas oounty, is rituated fift) miles al">\'- Bvansville. The population 

is about two hundred. It hasag I trade, and is an important Bhipping point t'>r live stock 

and other products. There are two firms dealing in general merohandbx J I Mackey 

ami Paxton A Montague. W . \. Alben deals in gr xies. There is also a tl> »i i t-i 1 1 u 

mill operated by J. V. young, and a blacksmith Bhop operated by W. II. Johnson. 

Wesi I .< M i>\ i i.i.i-: i- situated in I 1 ounty about three miles inland, surrounded 

by a very fruitful region >■( country. Th< imunity in and around the town is progress- 
ive and prosperous. It bass population of aboul three hundred, and is supplied with t 

churches and bcI I-. It- landing for river traffic is < 'urdsville. The < >wensboro Banking 

( lompany maintain- a brauch hi re and transacl a g 1 business, with Mr. J. I. B andfbrd a- 

ishier. The merchants of the place are : J. I. Thompson, J. II. Elder, II. C. Bartley 

and A.T.Williams. W I- Bros., millers and dealers in grain. Henry Burch, hotel. 

Ned II ia-. livery and sale stable. Tom Asher, blacksmith. The physicians are: Drs. 

T. M. Blandfbrd and John Clayton. 

1 i B.D8VILLE, Daviess county, is forty-two miles from Bvansville. The town has a 
trade with Burrounding ntry, and is an important Bhipping point for live stock and 



DAVIESS COUNTY PRODUCTS. 


W -iJC, Pound- 
ll:iv, I'. iii- 


i bra, 


Bushels 


1,619,000 


1 -- 


OaU, 


ii 


- 


'Ml-, Nil Hi i 


Wheat, 


ii 


- 


Average \> in 




" 


181 




IV:i, ! 


" 


; ■ 




Iriuli PoUtl 




. . 89,088 


Boimc Number 


'• 


1,096 


Males, 


Tobai 


Ponndi 


-.:.-n. 14:; 


11 




•• 




Shi ■ 




.. 




Chickens, 



FROM BOWl.INii GREEN To KVANSVII.I.E. 



119 



general products. A large tobacco stemmery is located here, handling a great ileal of this 
staple. Tin' merchants are : W. T. Tilford, -I. B. Morse, (i. W. Weldon, K II. Layson. H. 
II. McCain, grain and stuck dealer; Y. I>. Ervin and V. S. Shockley, liverymen. W. T. 
Galloway, saw mill. There are two hotels, one blacksmith simp and three churches. The 
physicians arc : J. E. Payne and J. H. McCain. 

Birk City, thirty-five miles from Evansville, is in Daviess county. It has a popula- 
tion of about one hundred. J. M. Wiles & Co., general merchants, transact an extensive 
business, handling the produce of the country and dealing in general supplies. 



HENDERSON COUNTY 



IS the last of the counties treated ol in the book of The Green River Country. Green 
River enters the Ohio in the northern portion of the county alter flowing twenty miles 
on its soil. It has about sixty-two miles of frontage on the river. The lands along the river 
are strictly alluvial and very fruitful in the production of corn, grass and tobacco. Wheat 
also grows well on the second bottoms. Horses, cattle and hogs are raised in great num- 
bers. The principal trading points on and near the river are: Spottsville, Bluff City, 
Masons' Landing, Hehhardsville and Cross Plains. The total output of coal in the county 
for 1896 was about one hundred and twenty thousand tons. There are five mines in oper- 
ation, viz.: Corydon, Henderson, Peoples', Baskett, Spottsville and Rankin. The Rankin 
mine at Spottsville, on Green River, is the largest producer in the county. This mine is 
operated by the Green River Coal and Mining Company, composed of Gwat Rankin, 
Thos. Lowery and Rankin Eastin. The mine produced forty thousand tons in 1896, 
marketed along the line of the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis railroad, and at points 
below reached bv wav of Green River. 



HENDERSON COUNTY PRODUCTS. 



Farms, 

Average 

Corn, 

Oats, 

Wheat, 

Apples, '' 

Peaches, " 

Irish Potatoes, ' 

Sunt Potatoes, ' 



umber 2,858 

Acres 101 

Bushels 2,000,000 

" 55,000 



2i Hi, I 

110,141 

3,746 

81,847 

5,558 



Tobacco, Pounds 10,918,060 

Wool, " 11,390 



Broom Corn, Pounds 
Honey, " 
Wax " 
Hay, Tons 



Horses, 

Mules, 

Sheep. 

Hogs, 

Chickens, 

Eggs, 



LIVE STOCK. 

Number . 



Dozens 



5,000 

8,591 

112 

6,261 



4,385 

3,437 

3,204 

32,656 

132,714 

415 250 



SPOTTSVILLE 

Is iii Henderson county, and lias a population of about three hundred souls. It is the 
seat of a considerable industry in the coal trade, two mines being located here. It is situated 



120 



THK GREEN RIVER COI N I l:V 



al lock and dam No, I. on Green River, twenty miles above Evaosville. A g I farming 

conntr] Lies adjacent, and the merchants of the place handle a large volume of produce, 
consisting of tobacco, grain and live Btock. The trade "i Spottsville is principally with 
Evansville. The merchants are D. A. William- A- Mm.. I!. F. Crenshaw ami W..I. Ilurris 
& I'ii-m., all dealerein general merchandise. A saw mill is operated by W. M. Bauerheber 
and a ^ri-t mill by A. M. Cellar. There are t \\ > • churches, one a union church occupied 
lis M> thodists ami Presbyterians, ami one new Baptist church. The schools are under the 
gi neral law of the state, ami arc open about five months in tin- year. The Louisville, 
Henderson and St. Louis railroad crosses Green River at this point, maintaining 
a station ami telegraph office. Tin- town is also in communication with other points 
bj means "i tin- Cumberland telephone system. A great deal of live Btock i- reshipped 
Imii- from river landings t<> eastern markets by railroad. The traffic "t tin- region around 
Spottsville is so considerable that a -mall steamer tin. I- profitable employment in carrying 
passengers and freight t" and from Evansville. The steamer I'.. L. Reel, Captain James 

Gilligan, has been in this trade for s e time, and built up a fine business, besides being 

instrumental in developing the country by increasing it- transportation facilities. Evans- 

ville derh i - a gri at deal "t benefit fr this local river trad.', being tin nearest and -t 

jsible market for tin' products of the region from Spottsville down. In tin- matter of 
live Btock, if the business men "I Evaosville were fully alive t" tin- interests of tin- city, 
tiny would Bee to it that a live Btock market was provided, which would absorb tin- impor- 
tant item oi commerce, and prevent it being transferred to the railroads, as is now being 
done. What Evansville requires is a fullj equipped Btock yards, managed b) parties qual- 
ified to handle Btock in competition with Louisville. 

Joke Morris, head lookkeeper at 
lock No. ], mi Green River, is a native 
of thr state oi * mio. I n early life he 
learned the trade of a butcher, in which 
business he was engaged at the outbreak 
of tin- civil war. After tin' war dosed 
In' followed coal mining ami rafting for 
a period of fifteen years on Green River. 
He was one of tin- proprietors ami 
helped t" open tin Sligo mini' at Spotts- 
ville. In tin' year 1882 he was placed in 
charge of lock No. 1, on Green River, on 
account of his trustworthy character, by 
the Green and Barren River Navigation 
Company, whioh position he continued 

to till to tin' mtisfacti fthe company 

until 1888, when the companj -old out 
to tlir general government. \\ Inn the 
ivernment of the United States took 
possession of tin- improvement mi Green 
River, he continued as it- trusted 
employe in charge of lock No. I, which position he has held ever since, enjoying the 
confidence of the government as a -t competent offioer. Hi- is regarded a.- one oi the 




JOHN MORRIS HEAD LOCK KEEPER 



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most reliable and trustworthy men in the government service. Me has lived in Spottsville 
for a period of thirty years, is well known and highly esteemed by river men, and has the 
respect and confidence of the community in which he lives. 

Capt. M. L. Sauerhereu is a native of Leavenworth, Crawford county, lnd. He 
was educated in the common schools ol the county, receiving - a practical English education. 
In early life he worked with his father in the saw mill business, operating a floating saw 
mill ou the river. In this business they wore out about six floating saw mills, doing a 
large business. He began piloting about the year 1876, and was engaged'in this work fora 
.lumber of years on the Ohio, Salt and Green rivers. In 1885 he moved to Spottsville on 
Green River. He built a floating grist mill, but sold out and devoted himself to the saw 
mill business, operating a floating saw mill on Green River. The firm of W. M. and M. 
L. Sauerheber own and operate in connection with their extensive lumber and timber busi- 
ness the steamers Frank VonBehren and Little Clyde. In 1879 Capt. Sauerheber married 
Mi<- Martha Ellen Goldsmith, a most estimable young lad} oi Pitt's Point, Hardin 
county, Ky. 



LONGING FOR THE OLD SOUTHLAND. 

[The following impromptu lines were written by a home-sick southerner who found himself among strangers, 
''busted" and shivering in the frigid air of northern Minnesota. They will be appreciated by readers of the 
"Green River Country" on account of their pathos and reference to life in the south land.] 



Down where the magnolia blooms 

And the cotton bolls are white, 
Where the honeysuckle sheds its sweet perfume 
And the mocking bird sings its evening tune, 
Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where the flowers bloom 
From April to December, 
Where the sleek, fat cattle roam at will 
And of blue grass and clover get their fill, 
Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where the old black auntie reigns 

Supreme o'er the kitchen range, 
With fat young pullet in the pan 
And rich brown gravy near at hand, 

Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where good fat biscuits come 

Hot and short from auntie's realm, 
With great broad slices of country ham 
And tin- deep brown platter of juicy "yam," 
Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where the possom thrives 
And is hunted in his season 



On moonlight nights when the berries are ripe. 
Sweet taters and possom 's the nigger's delight 
Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where my sweetheart lived, 

Down where she became my bride, 
Down where our children came to us, 
Down where we lived 'till I went "bust," 
Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where our baby died, 

Many changeful years ago, 
When we laid her asleep in her tiny bed, 
Witli the willows and daisies over her head, 
Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where the speech is soft, 

Down where the hearts are true, 
Where the latch-string hangs on the outer door 
And hearts and hands open as of yore, 

Down in the Land of Dixie. 

Down where I'd love to live 

'Mong those who know me well, 
And when God calls, "your time has cornel" 
May we lie beside our little one, 

Down in the Land of Dixie. 



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W. J HARRIS 



JOHN HARRIS 



W. J. HARRIS & BRO., 



I.i >ms< Mi i;i has i- and citizens of Spottsville have contributed very greatly by 
their progressive business methods to place the town of Spottsville in the list of live river 

(own-. These gentlemen are proprietors of the largest and most dern store in the 

place, and handle the largest stock of* ft I- "I any establishment in the country around. 

Their stock consists "I dry goods, groceries, I ts, Bhoes and furnishing g I~. and 

in fact, a general varietj Btook They are also proprietors of m first-class 

hotel, where the travel- 
ing public can feel as- 
sured of satisfactory en- 
tertainment. In ("ii- 
iM ction \\ iili tin ir busi- 
ness thej conduct a 
first-class meal market, 
catering t" the wants of 
the community i" the 
matter ■>!' tin- 1» -t se- 
lected in e a t b. T 1i e 

M> SSI rs. 1 1 :irri> :irc 1 >• > t li 
nun of ezoell <• n t 
~< «i-ial attainments and 
ezi rcise a marked in- 
flnenoe in the society in 

LOCK AND DAM No 1 . AT SPOTTSVIIJJt wbiofa tlnvllM. 




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Hosts' Landing, Henderson county, Ky. Several openings into coal vein No. 9 
occur in this vicinity. The vein here is reached by shaft about forty feet to bed of deposit. 

J. T. Hust, an extensive farmer, stock man and laud owner of the neighbor! I, has a 

shaft thirty-eight feet to coal vein abovehigh water. Mr. Hust owns a large coal area. 
Utopia mine is one and a half miles below H list's in the same vein and about uniform depth. 

Cummins' Landing, thirty-one miles from Evansville. 6. \Y. Cummins, general 
merchant and farmer. 

Hebbaepsville, Henderson county, is situated about three miles inland from the 
river at Bluff City. It is situated in a well improved and fertile portion of the county, and 
maintains a considerable traffic with Evansville by the river. The merchants are R. S. 
Hart & Co., S. S. Willingham and C. W. Johnson. 

Bluff City, Henderson county, a village twenty-four miles from Evansville on the 
left bank of Green River. Population about one hundred. The industries are one saw 
and grist mill and one portable saw mill. The Messrs. Henry and T. N. Haynes operate a 
large general store and carry on an extensive farming business. They also own and operate 
the ferry at this point. Exports at this landing consist largely of live stock, and it is one of 
the best points on the river between Evansville and Calhoun, except Whitesburgh. Mr. 
Haynes estimates that 75,000 worth of goods and supplies are lauded at the place annually 
from the river. 






^3-S-S-3-S-5-S)j( }$&=•! 



PROF. CHARLES J. NORWOOD, 

Prof. Chas. J. Norwood, geologist and mining engineer, is of Virginia and Kentucky 
parentage. His father was Dr. Joseph G. Norwood, one of the illustrious early American 
geologists, who was principal assistant United States geologist in the first survey of the 
Lake Superior region; state geologist of the 
state of Illinois; assistant and for a time chief 
geologist of the state of Missouri, aud for nearly 
thirty-five years a professor in the Missouri 
State University. His mother was a great 
grand-daughter of William Grant and Rebecca 
Boone, sister of Daniel Boone. Charles J- 
received his educational training in part at 
the Missouri University, and in part from pri- 
vate instructors. He was assistant in his 
father's laboratory for nearly two years, and 
was assistant geologist in the Missouri sur- 
vey, under R. Pumfilly, and his successor, G. 
C. Broadhead, publishing several reports, 
among them being the first systematic cata- 
logue of fossils from the Missouri coal meas- 
ures that had been published, (1873.) He was 
assistant geologist on Kentucky survey for a 
number of years under N. S. Shaler, publish- 




CHARLES J NORWOOD 



1-1 THE QRKKB KIVKR onr.NTKY 

ing several reports. He was the first geologist t.i identify and deosribe the Chester and 
St. Louis groups "I subcarboniferous rocks in Kentucky. Be was professor of natural 
Bcienct in Bethel college, Russellville, Ky., for about i'< m r yean, and chief inspector 

• •i mines for Kentucky for nearly thirteen yean, serving in addition as curator of the 

logical department of tin state tur four years He was for Beveral years an as- 
sistant in the collection of mineral statistics for the Dnited States geological Burvev. Prof 
Norwood bas done much geological work as an expert, in the western and southern states, 
has managed silver, lt < • 1 < I and coal mines, been i ngaged in l< ad and copper mining, and is 

now mining engineer and manager for two gold mining < paniee in Georgia, near 

I tahlonega. His eminence in his profession may be inferred from his ■ nection, either do« 

or formerly, with the different important scientific bodies of the country. 11< i- a felloe of 
the Geological Societ) of America, member of the Engineering Association of the South, 

serving a term as » cond vice president, and corres] ling member "I the St Louis Academy 

3 nil. He was for years a member of the American Institute of Mining Engin 
and a fellow ofthe American Association for the Advancement ol Science, and was out ■■] 
the early members ol the Metrologies! Society of America, which has done bo much to 
introduce the decimal Bystera with respect to weights and measures in the United States. 

Prof. Ni'iu I began his professional work when nineteen Mar- of age, and has been a bus) 

man ever since. Ili- reputation is that "I a Bincere man, doing his dutj always, never 
betraying a trust or forsaking a friend. He married Mi-- Sarah K. Whit., a daughter "t 
the Hon. Daugherty White, .>l Clay county, Ky. They have three children, a son and two 
daughters. The son, now in lii- twenty-first Mar. is at college, preparing for the profi ssion 

• •t law; the daughters are at home with their mother, in Frankfort, Ky. 



A LAND OF PROMISE FOR HOME SEEKERS AND INVESTORS. 



I mi: I \ BOB \ M' ' All I \ l.. 



In treating of the resources ol the Green River country, it must not I"- forgotten that 
rich as it is in coal, minerals and timber, it- future lies in the development of it- agricul- 
tural resources. It- varied soils, adapted to i very kind ol grain, grass and fruit indigenous 
to tin temperate sone, must at an early da) attract the attention of those who desire and 
are willing to expend their labor in the erection of homes for themselves and children. 

Manufacturing enterprises may. ami no doubt will, create busy cent* rs of industry in 
and around th Bcene of their operations, but the sturdy mnrmra that produce the wealth 
ami give character and stability to a countr) have their homes upon it- soil. Nor i- much 
required in this favored region, beyond the ability and will to work, in the founding of a 
home. Lands can be obtained at almost nominal prices and in man) localities on terms bo 
favorable that an industrious man can pay for them with the proceeds of his current labor. 

All ditions exirt here to make this an attractive region for new beginners or persons 

with -mall capital. Ever) essential as to soil, water, climate and healthfulneea i- assnrred. 

Sol 1- and churches are i venient and social surroundings Bettled and Beoure. Markets 

an- in . a-\ reach and there is demand for every product Transportation facilities by water 
ami rail an good and are constantly being bettered. Persons with large capital may also find 
scope here t"r profitable investment ' >n the upper waters ol thi Gret n and Barren Rivers 



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are lands specially adapted to sheep husbandry and cattle grazing. The configuration of 
the country and climatic conditions are such that the maintainance of stock is easy and in- 
expensive. The hill lands of Warren, Edmonson, Butler, Muhlenburgh and Ohio counties 
are destined to become the scat of a great sheep culture. Fruit growers need not go to 
the Ozark Mountains to find a congenial habitate for the apple and peach. Here at an 
altitude but six hundred feet above sea level, is found the soil and the atmosphere in 
which, with proper selection and cultivation, these fruits reach a marvelous perfection. It 
is so with grapes, pears, apricots and all the small fruits. As fine flavored melons as the 
world produces are grown i n the clay soils of the Green River country. 

To particularize as to location of cheap lands and opportunities tor settlement and in- 
vestment, it is proper to begin with Edmonson county. This county has hitherto been 
without the means of transportation, in a great measure, and its lands and other resources 
have been neglected because iuaccessable. Immense quantities of timber and lumber have 
been floated out of its forests, but its wealth of coal, iron and soil is practically undeveloped. 
The new lock and dam on Green River, ten 
miles below Brownsville, the county seat, opens 
up navigation to a point some six or eight miles 
above the town and places a large portion of the 
county in communication with the markets of 
the country. About Brownsville and on both 
sides of the river to its junction with Barren 
River, are strong soils, alluvial in the river and 
creek bottoms and clayey on the ridges and table- 
lands. The land is well timbered. On Nolins 
('nek, six miles above Brownsville, and Bee 
Spring, in the northwest part of the county, are 
splendid lands. All these lands possess agri- 
cultural value and range in price where un- 
improved from two and a half to five dollars per 
acre. Improved lands are worth more, accord- 
ing to location and state of improvement. Lands 
in Butler county range at similar prices, unim- 
proved hill lands at three to five dollars per 
acre and bottom land at from five to ten dollars. 
Butler county has an extensive river frontage 

and a large percentage ot alluvial soils, and with its varied capabilities as to production, 
together with its rapid advance along all the lines of development presents an attractive 
field for the agriculturist. 

All the grains and grasses grow well in the soils of Ohio, Muhlenburgh and McLean 
counties and lands may be obtained in any of these counties convenient to markets, schools 
and churches at values and upon terms favorable to persons of small means. The old 
adai;c, however, that "there is no excellence without labor" holds good in reference to the 
improvement of these lands, as in all other things. The natural forest still encumbers the 
soil and must be cleared away. The most fertile lands, which lie in the bottoms, require 
ditching and draining. But it is this very condition that makes the country more desirable 
to the man whose chief capital is his muscle and who possesses a determination to use that 




W. P. GREENE. 
AUTHOR OF "THE GREEN RIVER COUNTRY.' 



I Bl ..111 IN KIVK.lt (OIXTRY 

mnaole in building u|> his fortune Poultry farming, bee (arming and fruit farming are all 
Bpeoial branches of husbandry that may I"- -m-,-,— fully proeeouted on Green River. In fine, 
it' the farmer wishes t,> make a specialty of feeding li"L r » and « :i 1 1 1<- . here is Boil that will 

produce fr Beventy-five to one hundred bushels "t corn t,. the acre, [f he wish 

engage in gi oeral farming here is the varied soil of bottom and table lands exactly -uit<-<l 
to the purpose. It he wishes to engage in the breeding and grazing <>( -t,,<'k, here are the 
hills ami valleys thai '_ r i\, vigor, health and endurance t" animal lit.-. It' his fancy inclines 
to Bpecial lines of farming, location and adaptation await his choice. 

The future of the Green River section is assured. It has the climate, the coal, the 
iron, the Btone, 1 1 > • - timber and above all the soil npon which t<> build it- coming social and 
commercial frreatness. Persons desirous of securing homes, engaging in agriculture in any 
of its branches, acquiring <"al or timber lands or Becking information on any subject <-,,u- 
neoted with the Green River Valley,are advised to address any ,,t the following named 
gentlemen, who will cheerfully respond t" all inquiries: P. J. Potter, president "l Potter's 
Bank; C. G. Smallhouse, president Warren Deposit Bank; Oapt. C. J. Vanmeter, Bowling 
Green; Hon. J. 8. Lay, Brownsville ; Dr. <i. II. Milligan, Round Hill. Butler county, 
H.m. W. A. Helm, John If . Carson and Speed Gufiy, Morgantown; Ben. 1'. Ringo, 8. K. 
Cox, Col. J. 8. I!. Wedding an, I II. P.Taylor, Hartford; N. T. Belcher, Rochester; Dr. 

.1. I.. McDowell, Central City ; Johnson <S WieklMfe and I i- Reno, First National Bank, 

Greenvilli . Dr. J. R Barnes, South Carrollton ; John T. Jackson, Rockport; I'.. F.Gray, 
Beaver Dam; Win. I'.. Noe, president Hank ■•! Calhoun; Oapt Henry Ballentine, Rumsey; 
J. T. Hurt, Host's Landing ; W. .1. Harris, 8pottoville; Oapt Lee Howell an, I W. I' 

ti, . Bvansville, End. These gentle d are all worthy of entin nfidence ami can be 

relied upon for accuracy in respect to any information given bj them. Thej also | 

thorough knowledge of the general resources "i the country. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 

'I'll,' author takes ilii- method ,,t expressing lii- obligations t,, the following gentlemen 
who have rendered him assistance in the preparation "t tlii- «,>rk. The Bubstantial aid ,>t' 

Prof. C. J. Noro 1. Prof. M. H. Crump ami Judge I 1 afeElroy, win, contributed 

valuable articles t«> tin' work, is c.*|>ciially a|>|irociated. Mr. II. < ». Bohroeter, who eon- 
tributed most "t tin 1 river views, ami Mr. < . I. W allin, <>f Bowling Green, who furnished 
tlif views ami street illustration appearing in the article under head of Bowling Green, 
and Mr. TI Wooten, ,,t Rochester, wh ntributed views • >! Airdrie,are entitted t,, spe- 
cial mention in this connection. Mr ('. G. Smallhouse, of Bowling Green, ami Oapt I 
Howell, "!' Evansville, are each entitled t" thanks for favors ami great enooot 
ment in the prosecution ol the work. W.l' Gbbenk. 









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127 




THE CITY OF EVANSVILLE. 



THE City of EvaDsville, Indiana, is the natural terminus of the Green River system 
of navigation, and the commercial focus toward which the traffic of the region 
flows. Its situation, at the mouth of Green River, with its capacious harbor and water and 
railway connections with the entire country constitute it the depot of supply and distribu- 
tion for the Green River country. Its interests are, therefore, in a great measure indentical 
with those of the people of this section of Kentucky. 

The city is situated on a high plateau on the right bank of the Ohio River, in the 
State of Indiana, six miles below the mouth of Green River. Its high situation secures it 
immunity from floods and river overflow, and tends to establish a character for healthfulness 
possessed by few other cities in the United States. The city contains a population of 
seventy thousand souls and is the second city in point of population in the state 
of Indiana. In the variety and extent of her manufacturing interests she is the 
first in the state. In addition to supplying an immense domestic trade, many of her 
manufactured products find a market abroad. She ships furniture to South Africa and 
Australia, edge tools to Europe and farm implements to Mexico and the Central aud 
South American States. The product of her saw and flouring mills, her stove founderies 
and irou aud architectural work are not only distributed throughout the United States, 
but are exported to many of the countries of the world. Her relation to the Green 
River country in respect to one of her principal industries is very marked. 

Evansville occupies a conspicuous position as a hard wood market. Her mills have 
for years supplied vast quantities of these woods to all portions of the United States. 
These woods have come mainly from the forests of Green River and its tributary 
streams. The logging camps of the Green River country and the saw mills of Evansville 
have poured a continuous stream of wealth into the city and she owes much of her pros- 
perity and growth, as a city, to her fortunate situation at the mouth of this splendid river. 

A late writer, referring to the lumber trade of Evansville, gives proper credit to the 
Green River country for this great source of wealth to the city. He says: "Evansville has 
made Indiana famous the world over. For half a century this city has been the largest 
manufacturing point for hardwood lumber in the United States, and consequently the 



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-t iii the world. The excellent quality ••( the stock has made I amber from Evansville 
in demand wherever oak is used. Being in Indiana, the name [ndiana oak was naturally 
applied to lumber shipped from r 1 » i — city. The fad i ~. t h« greater part of the lumber supply 
of Evans ville comes now, as it al way 8 has, from Green River, in Kentucky. Along that 
stream the ":ik seems t" thrive as nowhen i Ise. For more than fifty yean logs have been 
■ lit on its I >;i uk- and rafti d t" Evans> ille. In addition, millions of feet of lumber have be n 
sawed in mills along it- course and Bhipped to all parts "I the world. Most of this has been 
— < • 1 « 1 through Evansville concerns. This drain on the Bonrcee of the supply has been noticed, 
lnit Kin- of the lii^r mill owners says there is apparently enough left to last for fifty years i" 
come. The Evans ville mills produce one hundred million feel of lumber annually and 1 1 • « - 
mills "M Green River probably balf as much more. Scum- of the land has been cut over 

three times. Trees entirely too small for use at • cutting, in tin course of fifteen '>r 

twenty years, mature int arketable Bise. Tin- Ban mill- of Bvansville only number five 

now, whereas at one time there were thirteen here. The five cut almost a- much lumber 
with improved machinery as the thirteen 'lid. Much of tin- lumber manufactured in Evans- 
villi- i- used in the furniture factories "t the • - i i ^ . The tart that excellent oak lumber was 
manufactured here induced most "t tin factories to locate in Evansville. North, east ami 
west, tin- demand for [ndiana oak i- Mill largely rapplied from this city. Furniture facto- 
ries and car shops are theheaviesl users." Evansville may be congratulated, in foot, on 
tin- fortune that has thus placed her in such close relationship with tin- grand country 
through whiofa flows tin Green River. Derided, hereto- 
fore, a- a land "t Baw-logs, I p-poles and uncultured 

w l-cutters, thisot try i.- entering on a career "t de- 
velopment and wealth production that will - convert 

it int" the garden -put of Kentuoky. It- soil, it- coal. 

it- building Btone, it- iron, ami it- timber i Btitute a 

group of elements bo essential to the want- of man- 
kind that capital ami population must necessarily -■■< k 
their presence. Already there are mighty evidences ■•! 
advance along all the lines of progress in the valley 
of the Green River. This is observable in the opening 
up ami extension of farms, in tin- opening of new 
coal mines, in the establishment of wood-working ami 
other manufacturing plant-, in the springing up of new 
towns ami villages ami the extension of old ones, in die 
building id churches ami school houses, in the found- 
ing of colleges, an. I through ami above all i- the 
bouyant disposition of it- people, who have caught the 
-|iiiit m( progress and who seem to realise that their 
country, like a bride robing herself for tin- altar, is put i i i ■ tr 
<>ii her wedding garments preparatory to a union with a high 
and noble destiny. The jobbing and supply trade of the city 

i- second only in imports • t" her manufactures. In drj e I-. 

fancy ami staph groceries, hunt- ami shoes, hat-, clothing, hard- 
ware, drugs, millinery, china, glass and queensware, mill supplies, 
notions and confectioneries, ami, in fact, in every line of merohandU 




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desirable for farm anil domestic use, her stocks are ample and her merchants broad-minded 
and liberal and fully alive to the relation thev bear to the trade of the country. 

The general aspect of the city of Evansville is that of a flourishing and progressive 
city It covers an area of about five square miles and extends for a distance of four miles 
along the Ohio River. The city has fifteen miles of bricked streets, embracing the princi- 
pal business thoroughfares and many of the chief residence streets. Electric lines penetrate 
all portions of the city. It is the boast of the city that it has the best street car service of 
any city of its size in the country. It has twenty-six miles of electric street railway. All 
the city buildings, provided for its various public needs, are of brick and constructed on 
modern principles with a view of serving the purpose of their erection. They are steam 







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^■ppn 



CITY BUILDING. 



heated and lighted bv electricity. The central building, occupied by the several depart- 
ments of the city government, is arranged with a special view of meeting the requirements 
of the government as instituted by the new charter. The first floor contains the office of 
the mayor, comptroller, treasurer, clerk and secretary of the water works. The second 
contains the council chamber and rooms for meetings of the various boards constituting the 
executive departments of the city government. Adjoining are spacious buildings devoted 
to the departments of justice and the tire and police departments. In addition to these 
central buildings, there are ten other commodious buildings for the use of the fire and 
police departments, located in different parts of the city. The city owns the water works, 
which are now being improved and capacity enlarged by the erection of a new pumping 
station and the addition of larger mains. 



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The pnblio schools of the city are a feature of it- civic progress, "f which it- citizens 

may well be proud. There are seventeen public acl I building pletely equipped 

with every modern appliance neoessarj to secun comfort and impart instruction. Tin- lull 

course of Btudy from the primary grades i" and 
through the high school department, embrao 
period "I eighf years, and the pupil who re© 
his or her diploma at the end of the course has 
aoquired ■ most thorough practical education. 

The city isthoronghly lighted by both gas and 
electricity in all its part-. The city's present 
degree of prosperity, together with it- remarkable 
development in the line of public improvements 
that contribute t" the comfort and convenience of 
it- people, i- due in a great measure t.i the public 
Bpiritednt -- and civic pride of it- business nun. 
The Business Men"- Association, organised in 
bas • ci rted a powerful influence in bringing 

about reforms in the oity gover nt, in pro- 

moting public improvements, in harmonizing 

public sentiment with moden tthods and pi 

r.--. In securing a more faithful observance and • \- 
ecution "t municipal law and in general conserving 
the lii^lu-i good "t the municipality. The two 
commercial bodies of the city, the Business Men's 

Association and the Manufacturer-' Association, arc 

essential elements in the forces that are constantly adding to the growth of the city. The Busi- 
n, .- Men's Lssociation building, a stately structure, 
embodying all the essentials of architectural art 
and business convenience, erected in 1889, was one 
of the achievements "f tin- organisation. This 
beautiful building i- five stories in beightfa and is 
constructed • >( stone and pressed brick. It con- 
tains the Grand Opera House and Business Men's 
Hall, besides numerous store rooms and off 

The Kvan-villc Manufacturers' Association 
was organised in the spring of 1892, and grew 
rapidly until it- membership to-day numbers over 
one hundred <>f the leading manufacturing en- 
terprises of the citv. It- first president was Mr. 
Charles Bchulte, under whose administration t 1m- 
\ — Nation _'!••■ u rapidly and secured a firm toot- 
ing. He was succeeded by Mr. Walter M. Schmitt, 
who served in that capacity for two term-. During 
Mi. Sch mitt's incumbency "t the presidency, a stock 
company was organized for the purpose of pur- 
chasing a building t" In- used as the |» rmanent 



HON W M AIKIN MAYOR OP EVAN3VILLE 




J R OOODWIN. PRIST BUSINESS MENS ASSOCIATION 



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headquarters of the Association. Mr. Schmitt and other members of the Association were 

very active in forming the stock , ^ 

company, and in less than a month's 
time more than sufficient stock had 
been subscribed to pay for the mag- 
nificent premises now occupied by 
the Association, at the corner of 
Second and Division Streets. The 
Association lias no debts, and is in 
good financial condition, with the 
finest headquarters in the State of 
Indiana. Mr. Schmitt was suc- 
ceeded in the presidency by Mr. B. 
F. Von Behren, whose administra- 
tion was marked for ability and 
careful management of the associa- 
tion's affair's. The present incum- 
bent of the chair is Mr. Theodore 
R. McFerson. Mr. McFerson has 
always taken a deep interest in the 
success of the association, and being 
a man of public spirit, the power of 
the association for doing good in the 
community will not be permitted to 
wane. The financial affairs of the 
association are under the direct 

management of a board of directors, the present board being as follows: B. F. Von Behren, 

Fred A. Riehl, George 
T. Schultze, Louis Stoltz, 
Fred Grote, Gust. Wey- 
and, W. M. Schmitt, 6. 
F. Jacobi, J. R. Good- 
win and Chas. W. Britz. 
The majority of the 
members take an active 
interest in the affairs of 
the association, and its 
meetings are conse- 
quently well attended. 

Some conception of 
the magnitude of the 
commerce of Evansville 
may be gained by an 
enumeration of the var- 
iniis lines of transporta- 
tion that have sought 

MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION BUILDING 




BUSINESS MENS ASSOCIATION BUILDING. 







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her wharves and warehouses. Nine railroads run trains into the city from all points east, 

north and south, [n addition she baa two local roads, the Evansville, Newburgh A 

Baburban and tin- Belt, aurroundiog the city. These embrao Beveral importanl systems, 

among which ma) be mentioned the Evansvil 
Terre Haate, the Louisville & Nashville, the [llinois 
Centra), 1 1 « « - Peoria, Decatur A Evansville and the 
Louisville, Evansvill< a St. Louis, Evansville <& [ndia- 

napolia, Evansville & Richm I. and the Louisville, 

Henderson & St. Louis, all "t which have - 

'u __ _^j connecting lines, placing the city in i munication with 

all portions of the United States. There are ten 
steamboat lines terminating or touching at her wharves. 
These place the city in close communication with all 
points "ii tin- Ohio valley Bystem "t waterways V 
li -- than seven of these lines have tlnir termini at 
Evansville, vis.: The Evansville, Ohio «v Green River 
Transportation Co., the Evansville, Paducah .v. Cairo 
Packet <'".. the Louisville & Evansville Packet Co., the 
Evansville & Henderson Packet Co., the Evansville & 
Owensboro Packet <'".. the Evansville & Tenm 
River Packet Co., the Evansville & Nashville Packet 
• '.... and the Green River Packet Co. represented by 
the steamer J. C. Kerr. All of these river lines con- 
tribute more or less to the business and growth "I 
the city, and are ol importance from that fact, but as pertinent to the subjeel matter of this 
work, only those lines are Bpecificalh mentioned which are engaged in promoting the into rests 
of Evansville in its relations to the Green River trade. This trade is of such paramount 

importance t" the < ■ i t v- that 1 1 ■ < - means by which it i- < Berved becomes matter ol most 

interesting consideration to every citizen "I Evansville as well as «>t the Green River 
country, therefore, a somewhat detailed notice of them, as also "t the nun whose enterprise 
ami public — |»i i-it inaugurated, and is now maintaining them, seems peculiarly within the 
|H"\ inoe "i ilii- work. 




T R McPERSON. 
PKISID«NT MANUPACTURKR S ASSO N 



EVANSVILLE, OHIO & GREEN RIVER TRANSPORTATION CO. 

This company was organised in 1889 for the purpose "I doing a general t ■ • w i 1 1 v r busi- 
ness on the Ohio, Green and Barren rivers and tluir tributaries. Th< incorporators ami 
owners of the oompanj were the late T. J. Moss, of St. Louis; Capt Lee Howell, of Evans- 
ville, liul.. and B. F. Givens, of St. Louis Messrs. Moss and Givens were at that time 
operating the largest cross-tie and timber business in the west, and in conjunction with the 
Towboat < !ompanj . the} opened n |> a cross-tie and timber business in tin- < Ireen River ter- 
ritory, which has since been increased t" verj large proportions Within the past two 
years two packet steamers have been added t" the equipment "l tlii^ company with the 
design and determination of furnishing t.. the people ol the Green River country and 
t<> the business interests of Evansville, a reliable and permanent packet service, 
prompt in the discharge ■>! it^ engagements and responsible in the discharge of everj 






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obligation it assumes as a oommon carrier on these craters. The preeenl equipment 

"I tin- ipany (i>r the purpose .it transporting passengers and freight consists <>f the 

Bteamers Crescent City and Gayoeo. These vessels are well fitted for the trade, baving a 
large carrying capacity, :i n 1 1 > 1 • - deck room and excellent passenger accommodations. 

Both vessels bave been Bubjeoted t" Bach improvements and repairs that they are 
practically new boats. New boilers and machinery have been pot in and everj pan has 
l)i. ii thoroughly overhauled with a view to attain the maximum "t Becurity and comfort 
for the passenger traffic as well as the largest efficiency in the transportation <>f freight. 
These vessels make Bemi-weekly trip-, plying between Evansville and Bowling Green, 
touching at all landings en route. It is the design of the oompanj to add t.i it- equipment 

as the requirements >>i the service demand. With the expanding trade following u| the 

rapid development "f the country, the time is mar at hand when the company anticipates 
the need ■•( another vessel. Arrangements are now being made looking t" this end. \\ itli 

a third vessel added 
t" tlnir equipment, the 

upanv « ill be enabled 

to establish a daily line 
nt' -u ilt running park' ts, 
leaving Evansville and 

I'n.u lin^ ( ill i ii ilail\ for 

all point- on ' i iv ii. Bar- 
ren and Rough rivers. 
With ili>' putting in of a 
thinl boat, it is antici- 
pated that the rapidly 
increasing commerce will 
demand 1 1 » * - establish 
mi in of a daily river 
mail route, which, with 
the postal sen ice already 
existing, will place the 
river towns on an equal- 
ity, as t" mail facilities, with the rest ■■( the country. When tlii- is at mplished, it 

i- in lii vida new face will !"• put upon the Green River trade. 8uoh an intimacy of trade 
relationship between Evansville and the people "f the Green River country will result that 
tlnir intercourse will consist of the daily exchange "t products and commodities. The com- 
pany is also engaged in tin- towing business, in which service it has the towboats Long- 
fellow and Little Tom Moss, with a large fleet of barges. This branch of the company's 
business embraces the transportati t cross-ties, lumber, coal, grain and other large ship- 
ments from landings on Green, Barren, Ohio, Cumberland and Tei ee rivers, to Evans- 
ville. The chief owners and promoters of tlii- enterprise are Evansville people and 
primarily interested in the business prosperity of this city, also taking a deep interest in 
the development and commercial prosperity ol the Green River country. The people "f 
that section may l» assured that tlnir interests will be Btudied and everj effort used by the 
company t" promote these ends. 

The Evansville, « * 1 * i • ■ a Green River Transportation Company transacts it- bun- 




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ness on the principle of u mutuality of interests between it and its patrons, realizing that 
confidence is the basis of permanent business relationship. The company therefore hopes 
that this confidence will be extended, pledging itself to the performance of every obligation 
devolving upon it, in the spirit of fairness and mutual dependence. 



CAPTAIN LEE HOWELL. 

Captain Howell is a native of the state of Alabama. His early life was that common 
to farmer boys of our country at that period, and presents a picture of youthful ambition 
and ardent desire to win a place in the world, so characteristic of our American youth. At 
the age of fifteen years he left the farm and became a clerk and bookkeeper in a general 
country store. From this time forward his career was one of progression. From a country 
boy to the position of assistant general freight agent of one of the greatest railroad corpor- 
ations in America, is the epitome of his life's his- 
tory. What a study this presents to our young 
men, who stand appalled at the seeming difficulties 
of preferment, forgetting that the future holds a 
place of usefulness and honor for everyone who is 
worthy. The best summary of a man's worthiness 
and ability may be gathered from his achieve- 
ments. Judged by this aphorism Captain Howell's 
worth and ability are beyond question. He became 
a citizen of Fvansville in 1880, coming here in the 
capacity of general agent of the Louisville & Nash- 
ville Railroad Co. In the year 1882 he was ap- 
pointed general freight agent of the Evansville & 
St. Louis and the Evansville, Henderson & Nash- 
ville divisions of that company, with headquarters 
at Evansville, and adopted this city as his future 
home, identifying himself from that time on with 
all of its interests and concerns. He has held many 
positions requiring fidelity to the interests involved 
in all of which no form of eulogy better expresses 
the character of his service, than to say, he has 
always performed his duty to the best of his 
knowledge and ability. In his present position as representative of a great corpora- 
tion, a position involving vast responsibility and immense business interests, his attitude 
is simply that of devotion to the duties entailed by his relationship to the company 
he serves. It is proper to say here in passing, that no breath of public prejudice is 
well founded, that associates Capt. Howell with any design or purpose of aggrandizement 
of himself or the corporation he represents at the expense of the city of Evansville or its 
people. On the coutrary, it is his earnest desire, as his actions attest, to contribute in every 
way possible and to use whatever means his position affords him, towards the upbuilding 
and material good of the community in which he makes his home. 

His life as a citizen is marked by the same attribute of duty that has been a 




CAPT LEE HOWELL. 
PRES T. OF THE E . O. & G. R TRANS. CO 



1 36 i in OBBI N imvki: OOUN1 i:v 

factor in bis conduct in the many positions of responsibility and tru-t which be ba« bald. 
Hi- everyday condud in the walk- • >(' private lift -h..w him to 1" faithful t" friends and 
family, kind and neighborly to his acquaintances and exemplary in bis habits and observance 
i,i social decorum. In public he i- distinguished by lii- readiness t" assist in every worthy 
enterprise for the public ;_'""<!■ In business affairs he i- methodical, industrious and 
thorough. < >m- phase in In- character as a citizen d< mphasis, not only tor the i 

that it illustrates the activity of hi- disposition, but also exhibits in a very forcible manner 
lii- interest in the progress and prosperitj of the city of Evansville. It may be called 
public-8piritedne8s. It is manifested in the inauguration of public business enterprises, 
which, though private in themselves, have in them bo large an element oi public utility, that 

tbej are of the nature '>f public improvements and c lucive to the wel&re "i the whole 

community. Thus, he was "i>e ■•( the principal pr h rs of the Evansville, Suburban 

\ v wburgh railroad, an enterprise that has been <>t' ii" little value to the city "I" Evans- 
ville. He was one of the principal founders of the town of Howell, which has grown to 1" an 
important adjunct t<> the city, adding greatly to it- trade and consequence. He was instru- 
mental in the locati if the railroad -h"|p- at that place-, by which hundreds of laboring 

men and mechanics o( Evansville have obtained constant and lucrative employment, and 

thousands of dollars have found their way nthly into the hand- of the tradesm t 

the city. 

His latest and perhaps most important achievement in the interest of Evansville, was 
the formation of the Evansville, Ohio A Green River Transportation < '<•. Realizing the 
vast importance. of the Green River trade t" Evansville, and that other competing cities 
were makiBg Btrenuous efforts t" divert it. he determined t.. establish a permanent and 
reliable packet Bervice on the river, thus affording the manufacturers and merchants oi the 
city [ >r* «i ii | »t and expeditious means of reaching the trade. He raw long ago what others 
are beginning t" realize now — the marvi llous development that is taking place in the 
country bordering Green and Barren Rivers and proceeded to lay the foundation for Evans- 
ville to reap the benefits accruing therefrom. In pursuance of this design a packet Bervice 

was inaugurated in < <'ti«>n with the Evansville, Ohio and Green River Transportation 

< '.... which was originally organized as a towboat company, and the Bteamers Evansville and 
Gayosc were purchased, both "t which bad been previously operated in the trade but had 

continuously lost monej for their owners. En ntering much opposition at the start be- 

cause his motives were not understood and surmounting many difficulties, he, as the guiding 
-jiirit of the enterprise, has moved steadily forward in the accomplishment of his pun 

In tin foce of some home prejudice and that of a lew people >>n the river growing out 
of the laei of his connection with the Louisville «v Nashville Railroad Company, and the 
misapprehension that the Railroad Company wa- interested in the steamboat enterprise, he 
has calm I) bent himself to the task assumed, conscious that sooner or later his efforts will 
lie appreciated l.\ those he has undertaken to rarve. It does not detract from the merit of 

these works, to -ay, that they were undertaken for personal end-. The merit i- all the 

greater when it i- considered that the ri-k of failure is all bis, w bile it successful, the public 

-hare in the Ken. tit-. The day may be h>ni: deterred when the ('it\ ol Kvan-ville will <h> 

honor to Capt. Howell for his many deeds in her behalf; but time, the great vindicator, 
will sooner or later place his name in the category of public spirited men, who, while Beam- 
ingly absorbed in their own pursuits, yet tind time and opportunity i" be "i use t" their fel- 

l"W men. 



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B. F. GIVENS 



Is one of our most enterprising and progressive young business men. He, with Capt. 
Lee Howell, is the owner of the entire stock of the Evansville, Ohio A: Green River 
Transportation Company, operating a line of passenger and freight steamers on Green River, 
and a line of tow boats on the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and Green Rivers, handling 
railroad ties, lumber and other heavy commodities. He is also the largest stock holder and 
superintendent of the T. J. Moss Tie Company, one of the heaviest dealers in ties in this 
country. The operations of this company cover a field embracing the Ohio, Tennessee, 
Cumberland and Green Rivers and the railroad lines smith, shipping ties to all points in 
the country. Evansville and St. Louis are the two main points of delivery by water 
transportation. Mr. Givens is also interested in the Tennessee River Tie and Lumber 
Company, whose main office is at Paris, Tenn. This company operates extensive saw mills 
and yards at Coatopa, Ala. Mr. Givens is a native 
of Howard county. Mo., where he was burn Jan- 
uary 30th, 1859. He was educated at Central 
College, Fayette, Mo., and on attaining manhood, 
entered into partnership with his father, who is a 
large lauded proprietor of Howard county, in the 
business of farming and stock dealing. He prose- 
cuted this business with success until 1887, when 
he sold out his interest and removed to St. Louis, 
engaging in the railroad tie business with his 
brother-in-law, the late T. J. Moss. On the death 
of Mr. Moss, in 1893, he, with others, organized 
the T. J. Moss Tie Company, becoming its largest 
stock holder and superintendent. As a successful 
business man Mr. Givens has but few equals. 
Possessed of rare executive ability and fine business 
judgment, the enterprises in which he has engaged 
have been uniformly successful. He is zealous in 
his determination to assist in developing the Green 
River country, and in bringing its vast resources 
of coal, iron and timber into practical utility. With 
this end in view, he and his associate, Capt. Howell, 
have established their line of packets on the river, feeling satisfied that ultimately the 
enterprise will prove a success, and that their reward will come in the increasing 
commerce of the country, as its agricultural and mineral wealth is developed. The 
people of the Green River country and the business men of Evansville may congratulate 
themselves that two such enterprising and public spirited gentlemen as Mr. Givens and 
Capt. Howell have undertaken to establish a permanent and reliable transportation service 
on the Green River system of water ways. 

A minute description of the numerous public buildings which adorn the streets and 
environs of the city is beyond the limits of this work. A brief reference to a few of them 
is all that will be attempted. In the environs of the city is situated the Southern Insane 

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THK GREEN RIVER COUNTRY 



So8pital, a state institution, built :it a cost to the state •■! four hundred and fifty thousand 

dollars; the United States Marine Hospital; the building supied by the Little Sisters of the 

Poor— a Catholic charitable institution — the Poor Clares afonasfc ry; thet Orphans' Home and 
the Home "t the Friendless. Within the city are the splendid buildings "t the St. Mary's 




COURT HOUSB 



Hospital, the Deaconess' Home and the Willard Library. The county court hous oupy- 

i 1 1 _• an entire block in the heart "t the city, is one "I the finest buildings in the city. This 

magnificent structure, l>uilt entirely of 
Btone and finished in the most elaborate 
manner in every detail, cost upwards of 
three quarters "f a million dollars. 

< ai-i. Ki< n m:i« II. Williams was 
born in Pike county, [ndiana,near Peters- 
burgh, in 1854. Captain Williams re- 
oeived lii- earlj education in the common 

sol I- <>t lii~ native county and grad- 

uated in the Evansville Commercial Col- 
lege at the a^"- of eighteen. His first 
employment in steamboating was as <-lcrk 
on the steamer Mary Ajnent, in the Can- 
nellton and Evansville trade. His entire 
life Bince has been Bpent in Bteamboat- 
ing "ii the waters "t the < >1 1 i . » . Mi--i~- 
sippi and Green rivers. He married at 

\*irk.-!>nri;li. Mi->. \\ a- • -:i j >t :t i n <>f the 

steamer Silver Cloud. Engaged in the 

CAPT RICHARD H WILLIAMS " •'"-""" &» ■ Bhoil tin., in 







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CAPT. M. J. KEPLINGER. 



1 S!Ci — 4, and took command of the Steamer Evansville, now Crescent City, on Green 
River in December, 1890, which vessel he still commands. Captain Williams has held a 
captain's license for sixteen years. 

Capt. M. J. Keplinger was born 
at Rumsey, Ky., in 1861. He began 
steamboating as a pilot on Green River, 
in 1883. He served as a pilot on the river 
for thirteen years, and was made master 
in December, 1896. In 1887 he married 
Miss Tillie Seasongood, of Evansville, 
and is now the father of two bright and 
interesting children — a boy and a girl. 
During his long service on the river he 
has been on the steamers Bowling Green, 
Evansville, Clarksville, Gayoso and Long- 
fellow. He is at present master of the 
steamer Gayoso. 

Capt. A. L. Snyder, superintend- 
ent of the Evansville, Ohio & Green 
River Transportation Company, was born 
in the state of Ohio in 1837. His career 
as a steamboatman has covered a period 
of forty-two years. He began life on the 

water as a deck hand on Ohio River steamers and has filled all positions in the service 
except that of cabin boy or in the cook room. He has served on the Mississippi 

when wood yards were kept by Indians. He 
has served on the Upper Missouri River and 
seen herds of buffalo swimming the river, 
and eaten buffalo steak from the haunches 
of the animals lassoed from his boat. Cap- 
tain Snyder operated the tow boats for 
the Evansville & Green River Navigation 
Company for eighteen years. Upon the 
organization of the Evansville, Ohio & 
Green River Transportation Company, he 
became its superintendent. He is well known 
on all the rivers and his reputation for skill 
and experience in all matters relating to 
steamboating is universally recognized among 
river men. Captain Snyder is a resident of 
Evansville and has a pleasant home at No. 
30 Emmett street, in said city. 

The institutions of the city which 
represent her social progress are numerous 
and are sustained with noble liberality by her 











CAPT A L. SNYDER 



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people. Almost nil deaomi nations of religion known i" Christianity are represented by one 
■ ii more organizations. Thi re are fifty-four churches, and a number of religious or quasi- 
religious societies, all "I which are well supported. < >m ol the most active and aggressive 

organizations "t the latter descrip- 
tion, and one which is perhaps most 
universally supported is the Young 
Men's Christian A — ciation. The 
association has a magnificent l>uil<l- 

i n <_r . with every necessarj equi] nt. 

built :iinl furnished by the liberality 
ol the people "f Evansville, without 
distinction of sect or religious pn - 
di lection. It was organized in 
by the zealous efforts "t :i few indi- 
viduals and has constant!} extended 
it- usefulness and influence down 
to the present time. Other institu- 
tions, erected and maintained for tin- 
social well-being "t the city are its 
hospitals, public and private. Th< 1 

overnment maintains a hospital for 
tin treatment of >i<k and disabli <l 
mariners, but the crowning glorj "t 
the city, in tlii- branch ><t her social 
progn --. is in ber li"-|>ital> for 
the treatment "t all cases "I disease 

ami bodily suffering which seek tlnir ministration. The Deac as* II •. maintained by 

the Protestant German churches, and the St Mary's Hospital, maintained by 1 1 » • - Catholic 
church, are two institutions of tlii- character, "f which the citizens ol Evansville may 
well !»• proud. 

M \ i:-n >< iNTLiU Bakeby, S. 8. Scantlin, Manager -Manufacturers of Fine Crackers, 

Cakes and Bread, s ml and [ngl< Streets. This is one ol the largest and most important 

manufacturing establishments in the nitj ol Evansville. [ts establishment dates from 1 ^ s l . 
The present works were erected in 1893, and are equipped with every modern improvement 

and ivenienoe. The ground area of the building is 100x246 feet, containing basement, 

first and second Boors. The first tl contains the offices, salt - and ~lii|>|«in^r departments. 

Tin' packing room and machinery for making crackers, bread and cakes occupies thi second 
tl« >■ >r. The principal ovens are located "ii the first floor. The entire plant is heated by 
steam and lighted by electricity. The present output >>t the factory is fifty barrels of 
crackers and five thousand loaves "t bread daily, with facilities for almost unlimited exten- 
sion of product. The equi] sot of the establishment embraces ovens and appliances for 

the production of fine cakes and fancy styles "f baked g Is, t'>r which there isa large and 

increasing demand. This firm enjoys an immense trade in all the country tributary to Evans- 
ville. 




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THE GREEN RIVER ROUTE. 

The Transportation Line on Green River, operated by ('apt. R. T. Williams, is known 
as t lie Green River route. At present Capt. Williams is running only the steamer J. C. Ren- 
in this trade. The steamer Kerr is a splendid vessel for the trade, being distinguished for 
her light draft and remarkable carrying capacity. Capt. Williams entered the trade in 1888, 
soon after the government of the United States took possession of the Green River system. 
He first operated the steamer Maggie Bell, and then the steamer Blue Wing, but both 
these boats proving too small for the fast developing trade of the river, in 1892 he boughf 
the steamer J. C. Kerr, with which he has done a large and increasing business ever since. 




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STEAMER J. C. KERR. 



The Kerr makes two trips each week from Evansville and return to all points on Green 
and Barren rivers. The officers of the steamer Kerr are : R. T. Williams, captain; J. 
Edgar VV ill iams and Jeff H. Williams, clerks, and Thomas A., Wm. N. and Joseph E. 
Williams, pilots, whose courteous bearing and honest dealings with the Green River people 
have made their line universally popular with shippers and merchants from Evansville to 
Bowling Green. 



CAPT. RICHARD T. WILLIAMS 

Is a native of the state of Indiana. He was born in Franklin county April 2(ith, 
1833. His early life was spent on a farm. His father died while he was yet a boy, and he 



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remained with hi- mother, assisting her in the ear.- of the f:irm until her death, which 
oocorred when he was about the age ol rixteen. The death of lii- mother resulted in the 
-'•attiring of the family, and left him dependent on hi- own exertions for a livelihood. He 

came to Southern Indiana where he learned the 
carpenter's trade and -pent some yean work- 
ing at the busint --. accumulating some means, 
which he invested in ■ saw and flouring mill 

? near Alton, Ind. In 1856 be married M be 

Patience Suddarth, a most estimable young 
lady, daughter of a prominent family of Perry 
/ » ^^ connty. In 1880 he disposed of his milling in- 

terests and began steamboating on the Ohio 
River, running a line of Bmall packets in the 
local trade from Btephensport to < ►weneboro and 
points between. He remained in the trade until 
1888, when the Green River being opened to 
free navigation by the government he entered 
that trade in which he lia- continued ever Bince. 
Captain William- i- an experienced steamboat 
man. and ha- obtained a strong bold upon the 
people of the Green River section l>\ Id- de. 
votion t" their interests. He is a man of strong 
purpose and integrity of character, and has 
been influential in developing the trade of the 
river, and promoting and maintaining fair and reasonable rate- on the river, which, prior to 
hi- entering the trade, were in the hand- of a monopoly. In operating his line of trans- 
portation in this trade, he i- faithfully as-isted by his live -on-, all id' whom till positions on 

his boat. Captain Williams is a ^^^__ 

^•^^ worthy memlier of the Masonic 

^^^^^ V fraternity, which onhr he joined 

\ in 1864, being made a mason in 

W 0m± 2T f IJ "" Morri- I.od-e N... 

^aW W^ Concordia, Ky. He demitted 

*^. h thi- lodge in 1856, and was 

a charter member of Alton lodge 
No. 202, at Alton, Ind., being 

the first senior warden of this 

lodge, under dispensation from 

■ ■ 1 1 rand I <odge of the state "t 

Indiana. He -till hold- his 

membership in this lodge. ' lap- 
tain William-' home is at Evans- 
\ ilh. where he and Id- family 
stand high socially, enjoying the 



CAPT. RIOHARD T WILLIAMS 





J BDOAR WILLIAMS 
flRST CLIRK Of STIAUIR KIRK 



!• -p. e| and eolitid. lice o( al 

who know him. 



1SVF H WILLIAMS 
skoud clirk or STIAUIR kirh 



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143 



The jobbing and manufacturing trade of Evansville maintains upwards of two hundred 
and fifty traveling salesmen, whose fieldof operations extend all over ihe southern and western 
states. The export trade alone of Evansville in general merchandise and manufactured pro- 
ducts will reach forty millions of dollars annually. The limits of this work will not admit of 
a detailed catalogue and description of the numerous establishments engaged in manufacture 
and in the distribution of supplies to the country tributary to Evansville. Under the head 
of what may be denominated industries — establishments employing labor in the production 
of manufactured articles — there are over four hundred. Some of these, especially those 
engaged in wood-working and stove making, are of very considerable magnitude, giving 
employment to a large number of people. The estimated number of employees maintained 
by the different industries of the city is over ten thousand. This statement may be easily 
credited when it is considered that the cotton mill alone gives employment to nearly seven 
hundred people, and the three clothing factories to six hundred. The saw mills give em- 
ployment to about the same number; the foundries and machine shops to twelve hundred, 
and the railroad shops to as many more. These are only a few of the leading employers of 
skilled labor. When to this number is added the vast number of other laborers, skilled 
and unskilled, that find employment in the multitude of lesser industries, the estimate does 
not seem extravagant. The output of sixty of the principal manufactories as shown by 
United States census reports, was valued at $12,809,324 for the census year. The city has 
seventy-four establishments engaged in the jobbing trade. These cover every line of goods 



The HEILMAN MACHINE WORKS 

ESTABLISHED 1847' INCORPORATED 1884. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

CORLISS AND SLIDE VALVE ENGINES, 

PORTABLE AND TRACTION ENGINES, BOILERS, Etc. 



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£ ^ s ^ 3 



xAlW Mill? u ^fe?^ nni I'"' '■"^■: 







'NEW ERA' 



T 



STEAM PLANTS A SPECIALTY. 



THE HEILMAN MACHINE WORKS, 



Correspondence Solicited. 



EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. 



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I HI OBI EN RIV ■ I RY 




THB BOSTON STORB-FOWLBR. DICK A WALKBR DRY OOOD8 HOU8B ON MAIN STREET 
TKI HANDSOUBST Bl'SINISS Bl'ILDISO III BVANSVII.LB BUILT OP OOLITIC LIMBSTOSB PROII TBB ORIIS HIVIK COUNTRY 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVII.LE. 



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THE GRKI.S RIVER COUNTRY 






needed by tin- retail trade, and do retail merchant need fear disappointment in looking t" 
Evansville for supplies for lii- business. A- :i market for farm products Evansville claims 
equality with anj other within her territory. Including her eleven flouring mills and 
eral other special dealers in grain, the city has thirty establishments > ngagi d in handling 
farm products. Borne of these buy only for the local market, which absorbs a large share 




MELZBR SOAP WORKS 

of this trade, but there are Bevera] who engage extensively in buying and shipping bo east- 
ern markets. The retail establishments of the city are upon a scale to attract buyers from 
points for outside "I her local bounds. The immense variety and magnitude of the stocks 
carried, together with the narrow margin of |m>iit with which her merchants are content, 
are sufficient t" acoounl for the verj large trade which reaches the <ity from along the 
transportation lines by river and rail. 



TO THE PATRONS OF THIS WORK IN THE "GREEN RIVER COUNTRY." 

J | t ll |s I k has been verj carefully prepared, and has cost it- publishers a great deal "f 

monej and work. It is quite the most handsome work "t it- kind that has ever been 
published in this Bection, and the people <d the Green River Country ought t" be proud "I 
it. as they no doubt will l><-. In fretting u|> the w>rk the publishers met with many ditli- 
culties, ami have expended all the money received from subscriptions and advertisements in 
making the work beautiful. They wish to saj particularly THAT IT WOULD HAVE 
BEEN UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE [X> HAVE PRINTED SUCH \ HANDSOME 
WORK EX< l IT FOR THE PATRONAGE RECEIVED FROM EVAN8VILLE 
MERCHANTS [n view of this fact, they nrge their Green River friends to do all in their 
power t" reciprocate with their trade and orders t" these merchants, who are certainly 
greatly interested in The Green River Country. 






FROM BOWXING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



147 




L Puster $ Co. 



MANUFACTURERS 

FOR THE TRADE 

OF A LARGE LINE OF 

French 
Conopy 
Chamber 
Suits. 




SW I LL 1 "" 



l^ed^tead^ 
Wardrobe^. 



ESTABLISHED 1883 

SCHELOSKY & CO. 

Exclusive 
Manufacturers 
and Jobbers in . . 

«* <# TABLES. 

Extension Tables a Specialty. 
409 to 421 Harriet Street, 

EVANSVILLE. IND. 



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THE VULCAN PLOW GO. 

I HEILMAN PLOW CO. J 877-1898. ) 
EVAN5VILLE, IND. 




Manufacturers of the Celebrated 

VULCAN Chilled Pious 
and RO^E: CLIPPER Slee.1 Plows. 



ALSO 

VULCAN Hill-Side, New Ground, 

£ ingl< s Shovel, Doubh i 

Shovel Plows. 



All goods are STRICTLY HIGH GRADE and are warranted SATISFACTORY. 
Write lor CATALOG and prices. 
'<«<«< ""•«• > 






FROM BOWLINO (JRKEN TO KVANSVILI.E. 



14 ft 



CHARLES LEIGH & 00. 



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Wholesale 





if 



Druggists. 



If 



-EVANSVILLE, IND. 





Remember 



Ceurts 



SELLS GOOD SHOES 

313 Main Street. 
EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. 

GO THERE. 



M. CARV. 



U. W. MARBLE. 



CARY & MARBLE, 

PROPRIETORS 

Owensboro Planing MML 

DOING A GENERAL MILL BUSINESS. 



X AND DEALERS IN < 

{ LUMBER. SASH. DOORS. &c \ 
> Builders' Hardware. } 

s Foot Locust Street, \ 

I OWENSBORO, KY. | 



150 



I ll l GREI \ BIVER CX)UNTRY 



Boctticbcr, Kellogg $ Co. 



DEALERS IN 



HARDWARE 
and CUTLERY. 




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Tin and Enameled Ware, 
Guns, Pistols and Ammu- 
nition, Mechanics' Tools. 
Building Hardware. 



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122 om 124 Upper Hist sireei. 



, V Aft.3 VSlLJLi 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILEE. 



151 



t ROYAL PALACE saloon and oyster house f 

44 HOTEL ♦♦ J0HN H ' P0&EY < Pr °D' p ' 

BEST Sl.OO PER DAY HOUSE IN THE CITV. 4~ 
204 UPPER WATER STREET, T 

open aii Night. -^~— -EV/ANSV7ILLE, IND. « 

Fine Kentucky Whiskies, Wines, Etc. Jug Orders Promptly Filled. &. 



E. G. RAQON. 



D. S. RAGON. 



Ragon Brothers, 

WHOLESALE GROCERS 



WILLIAM HUGHES, 



LADIES' AND MEN'S 



PROPRIETORS OF 






M 



Diamond Roasted Coffee 
and Spice i»iiis 



RJRNI^ 



j 2= 14=11(6=18-20 First St, 
EVANSVILLE, IND. 



^ ORNISH ING 
^^GOODS 

Millinery and Notions, 
Wraps, Suits and Furs, 
Ladies' and Children's Shoes. 



304 AND 306 MAIN STREET, 
EVANSVILLE, IND. 




GUST. SCHINDLER. 



OTTO DURRE, JR. 



OTTO DURRE&CO. * 

IMPORTERS OF AND DEALERS IN 

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC 

WHISKIES AND WINES, | 

No. 109 MAIN ST. 

EVANSVILLE, IND. ^ 



152 



I UK GREI N RIVER ' "I M RV 



THE J. B. GREENE ELECTRICAL CO., 

ELECTRICIANS --^^ 

And dealers in all kinds of 

Electrical Supplies, embracing 
Steam and Gas Engines, 
Electric Dynamos and Motors. 

FINE CONSTRUCTIVE WORK A SPECIALTY. 

The following are a few ol the many Plants of this Company's Construction : 

ELKCTRI -: LIGHT PLANTS FOB THE ClTIES Of JaCKSON MlSS . CaRUI ILL EaRLINOTON ANI' V : i.B. 

K. \\ao Thk Cook Brrwin >n Avbnub Brbwino Co . and Thb Evansville Brewing Co 

Th I,obwenthal 4 Co . Harrison 4 Rudd all or the city or Evansvilli 

Kkii.ua:. at Henderson. Ky . and the Bauuoartner Block Factory at Rockport 

i steamers Royal Jkwkl. R6sb Hite. Tarascon. Dick Fowlbb Edgar 
Cherry W F Nisbkt. I N Hook, and many other plants throughout thi 

COUNTRY -- *-* -- MH J B GbBBNB. THB HEAD Or THE riHll. IS A PRACTICAL BLBCTRICIAH Or 
UANY YBABS BXPBRIBNCB IN THB BUSINESS. 




ALL WORK QUARANTEED AND 

PROMPTLY E\FCI II li 

I haix Cut the Price 



ESTIMATES FURNISHED 
ON APPLICATION. 



On all kinds and Sizes of Sash Doors. Blinds. Flooring 
Ceiling, and Weather Boarding. Von \\ill pa\ more | 
money for your material if you do not obtain my prices. 

The price of this door is from $1.90 to 52.10, according to sire. 
Writ* me for any information in the building line. 

THEODORE E. RECHT1IN, 

Dealer in all kinds Building Material. Cor. 7th and Ingle St*., EVANSVILLE. IND. 





UTAIUSHIO 1851 



J. F. BRUNING <& SON. 

IMPOKTIRt AND MANUrACTURCRS O' 

te'fe^to 1 ^ Teas. Roasted Coffees, Spices, Baking Powder. Flavoring Ex- 
tracts, Bluing, Etc.. Etc. 



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1 i r V 

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BRUNING'S PATENT ROASTED COFFEE, 

The Finest Flavored Coffee in the World. 

" tli i< lln>- i ■ >n r mill, I • 

in th. Suteol In. Hum »od wc »n - >>Ik>> 

THE EVANSVILLE COFFEE & SPICE MILLS. 

No 100 Upper First Street and 

Not. 111. 113 and 115 Vine Street. EVANSVILLE, IND. 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 153 




A. F. KAROES, Sec'y and Treas. FRED BOCKSTEOE, Pres. and Supt. 

THE KARGES FURNITURE COMPANY, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



CHAMBER SUITS AND WARDROBES. 
EVANSVILLE. IND. 



M W. Breges. Prest 



H.J.Rusche. Sec&Taeas. 




\\ a J 206TO218 

Walker Street. 



VarisvilleJndiana. 



i«(««««Ml«\«l«(«««lMI«VIMl(M>l«H«««»««W««MWM»WmM««lW«WlWTOWW«««imWW> 




154 



i in 1.1:1.1 N uiv f B > m n i i:v 







JAMES M DAVIDSON HENRI I in M M 

JAMBS I.. <»Kk. 



avidson. Blount i (jo.. 



MANUFACTURE MS Or 



Farm and Lo^ 

WAGONS. 



Cor. Filth and Locust Streets 



EVANSVILLE COFFIN CO. 

MANUf-ALTURtR^ OF 

Wood Burial Cases and Caskets, 

and Dealers in Undertakers Supplies. 

> EVANSVILLE. IND. 





ESTABLISHED 1866 Z 

LOUIS ICHENHAUSER & SONS. 




China, Glass and Uuccn>uare. 

' M £ 

EVANSVILLE. IND. 

mm»o.m>»»<" ■ 




Jo Mo A. 



p'- 






AGENT 



AKIN-ERSKINE MILLING CO.'S 

,a GOLDEN 
•- W ROD 

FLOUR 

I \ccllcnl la Uualil) Reasonable Id Price 





Cincinnati. Memphis and New Orleans Packet Co. 
liiansiillc and Howling (irccn Packet. 
Hiansiille and Wnodbur) Packet. 
Evansiillc and Cumh.rland Kiier Packet. 
D. M. Kern & Co.. Detroit, Seedsmen. 

ASHBY WHARFBOAT. 

ol 

EGCS. POULTRY. HIDES. ETC. 



■ II WlmrflH.nl mnl 

nd lit 



EVANSVILLE. IND. 



Walz Seed f Buggy Co 

JOBBERS IN 

<£<£ Seeds 

^'iUGGIES. 



Transfer Agents Peabody Buggy Co., 
Columbus Buggy Co., and Southern Trans- 
fer Agents for Champion Machines 
and Supplies. jl J* ..* J* J* 

EVANSVILLE, IND. 



The Largest Awning and Tent Factory in This 
Section of the Countr> . 




K\ ntir»\ ill*.-. 



I i i . I i . i i i . i 






FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILL.E. 



155 




Domestic and Foreign Delicacies. Rates 50c, 75c, $1.00. 
Also Ground Floor Sample Rooms. 



Cbe flcme Bote! 

Restaurant and Oyster House. 

CHAS. H. KIRBY. Propr. 



201-209 2nd street. 



EVANSVILLE, IND. 




GEO. M. UHL, 

Stoneware. Sewer Pipe. Flower Pots. Red Farm 
Drain Tile. Lawn Vases. Fire Wall Coping. 
Fire Clay Chimney Pipe. Well Curbing, and all 
Fire Clay Products. 

EVANSVILLE, IND. 



Cor. Main and 
Illinois Streets. 





SINAPP 6t ISAACS, 

(Formerly The Hatton Gallery.) 

Portrait StwdlO, Cor. /Main and Fourth Sts. 

HDTIOTIP nunm? At moderate prices. The best materials and latest mouldings Satisfaction guaranteed. Our success with 
rlKllollu rHUIUu Rul.ies is the result of skill and patience. We have the most commodious gallery m Southern Indiana— 
six rooms Including Reception, Toilet and Dressing Rooms. 

Entrance on Main Street and on Fourth Street, RenclricH Building. 

Photographs iu this book taken by Snapp & Isaacs, see pages 133, 142, 148 and 155. 



156 



I IH OBI r\ RIVER OO0N I'KY 



W . H. SMALL & CO., 



WHOLESALE DtALIRi IN 



GRAIN, SEEDS, PEANUTS 

Q RAIN.— We bnjf an'l tidj ■ irry m full line of Julg • -miti 

Has,. »r »!-•• handle the bi v i 

Orchard <".r 
ijke. German and Common Seed kite, Hungarian 81 

• 
I'EAM I- W< buj I from ibe van and band pick them at our Wai 

arc White Ron, Su|*rior. Hand Picked, Straight and Da 



W. H. SMALL & CO., General Commission Merchants. 



7 AND 9 UPPER FIRST STREET, 



I iiMi lll.-l \>CI I'MlIM 356 



EVANSVILLE, IND. 



the Goodwin Clothing Co., 



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MANUFACTURERS OF THE 

CELEBRATED 




EVAINSVILLE, IIND. 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 157 

ADDENDA. 



CONSOLIDATION OF THE GREEN RIVER PACKET LINES. 

SINCE the book of the Green River country went to press a consolidation of interest 
has been effected between the Evansville, Ohio & Green River Transportation Com- 
pany and the Green River Packet Company (representing the steamer J. C. Kerr) by 
which the Crescent City, the Gayoso and the Kerr, will run under one management. 

This is a most favorable movement for the Green River section as it will stop the 
ruinous cutting of transportation and passenger rates, which has so long stood in the 
way of permanent and reliable service on the rivers and has been so damaging to the in- 
terests of river merchants, as it gave opportunity to retail buyers to patronize the larger 
centers of trade. This arrangement will insure to the business public of the Green River 
country a daily packet (as soon as the details are completed) both ways, and consequently 
a more regular and uniform period of arrival at the different landings. Just and equita- 
ble rates will be maintained commensurate with the service performed, the motto of the 
new company being, "live and let live," which will be strictly adhered to. Sensible peo- 
ple will readily admit that former conditions have not been satisfactory on account of un- 
certainty of service and non-uniformity of transportation charges resulting from the dif- 
ferent boats contending for the business. It was a foregone conclusion that no boat could 
live under such conditions. This uncertainty, was a source of anxiety to the shipper and 
a positive drawback to the shipping interests. Past experience has demonstrated that the 
rivalry between opposing lines has resulted in the loss of money on the part of those oper- 
ating them. This is an evil that should not exist, and no fair minded business man desires 
to see it continue. Fair and just rates to carrier and shipper, and prompt and reliable ser- 
vice are more to be desired than the uncertainty and irresponsibility which are the 
certain fruits of a losing business. The bug-bear of monopoly may be at once discard- 
ed from the public mind. This spectre has stalked throughout the Green River section for 
a number of years and is the legitimate offspring of the policy of the State of Kentucky in 
leasing the rivers to a corporation. The state saw its mistake after it was too late, and the 
people bore for nearly twenty years the exactions of a corporation whose control of the 
rivers was absolute. Having escaped this incubus upon the trade and development of the 
country, the people along the river are not to be blamed if they are sensitive on the sub- 
ject of monopoly. But no such conditions now exist as can reinstate this state of affairs. 
There is always the menace of organized opposition to unfair treatment and unreasonable 
exactions. With the rivers free, no line of transportation dare invite hostility and oppo- 
sition by a rate oppression. Besides this, the high character of the men who constitute 
the new organization is a sufficient guarantee that a fair and legitimate business is the only 
end in view. That the business of the river will not support two rival lines, has been 
abundantly proven. The result has always been heart-burning, failure and financial 
wreck, to the boats and their owners, and no lasting good to the people. It is therefore 
hoped that the new arrangement will place the traffic of the river upon a firm and perma- 
nent footing, that by its character for liberality, promptitude and responsibility will aid in 
the development of the Green River country, and in the further enlargement of its com- 
merce. The new company is known as ''The Evansville and Bowling Green Packet Com- 
pany." President and Treasurer, Lee Howell; Secretary, H. P. Cornick; Attorney, J. W. 
Wartman; Directors, B. F. Givens, R. T. Williams and Lee Howell. 






I III GREEN RIVEH COUNTRY 



MR. V. J. BLOW, 

Of the ti mi of Hiram, Blow <& Co., whose exten- 
sive work- .it Central City, Muhlenberg county, 
are illustrated on another page, (se< pag 7- ma 
lii- home at Louisville, but i- sufficiently identi- 
fied with the Green Raver country, on account ol 
lii> business interests, t" merit :i Dotice in 1 1 ■ i -~ 
work. Mr. Blow has charge of the sales and 
financial departments of the group "f industries 
op rated by this firm throughout the country. 
The management of the vast business "t t 1 1 i — con- 
cern, embracing as it does, the manufactui 
staves and bard-wood lumber al -■ veral | >< > i n t - 
in the South, requires the exercis< •■: great 
cutive acuities and energy. Mi. Blow has tl 
qualifications in ;i remarkable degree and it i- t" 
lii- business activity and judgment that the tlrm 





V J BLOW 

owes much of it- prosperity. The 
headquarters of tlnir rutin- system 
of works in s 1 • « - the Sniitli are at < !en- 
tral < Sty. 

CAPT. JOHN GILBERT. 

< ' \ i-i . .I"ii\ < li i 1:1 1:1 . president 
Evansville, Paducah and Cairo Pack- 
et Company, is one <>f Evansville's 
most valued and useful citizens. His 
intlii" hit and efforts can always be 
relied upon in matters pertaining t«> 
her commercial <>r social advai 
■■■•-lit . His industry and business ac- 
tivity have been evinced by lii- < ■« > ti - 
nection with many important enter- 
prises that have contributed t" the 
city's growth and prosperity. His 
business sagacity has been vindicated 
by his success. Hi is greatly int. r- 
• sted in the progress :m<l develop- 
ment of the < treen Baver country, 
foreseeing with his usual sagacity, the 
vast trade that the city may control 
from that r« -j^i< • i ■ by vigilant effort 



CAPT JOHN OILBBRT 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 159 

JOHN GILBERT, President. J. H. FOWLER, Supt. S. A. FOWLER, Gen'l Frt. Agt. 

Tennessee and Ohio River Transportation Company. 

INCORPORATED 

EVANSVILLE, PADUCAH AND CAIRO LINE. 



STEAMERS: 

JOE FOWLER, JNO. S. HOPKINS, GUS. FOWLER, DICK FOWLER. 



Don't do a Thing 
Until You Read 

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FOR 10 CENTS. 



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You Never Know the Real 

Value of Advertising 

until you try 

THE 

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It reaches both your custo- 
mers and your competitors. 



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Cfye €ixanspille Cribune. 

Each Evening of the Week and Sunday Morning. 

-^^■- DEMOCRATIC ALL THE TIME. 

A PAPER FOR THE HOME. THE ADVERTISERS MEDIUM. 



THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO., 



THE EVANSVILLE TRIBUNE. 



ISIIAM TAYLOR, President. J. G. TIIACKEIi. Editor. 

J. G. TH ACKER, Vice-President. \V. W. IRELAND, Man'g. Editor. 

LEWIS TAYLOR, See'v and Treas. R. CARRY MAY, Advertising Mgr. 

LEWIS TAYLOR, Business Manager. 

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PH. NONWEILER, PHIL. C. NONWEILER. 
Pres'tATreae. Bec'y. 



EVANSVILLE 
FURNITURE 

MANUFACTURBR3 Of 

Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Safes. 

Tables and Dak Chamber 
Suites, 

AND J0BBHR3 IN 

Chairs and Mattresses. 

Salesroom and Factory: 

PENNSYLVANIA ST. 

Bet. 6th and 7th Avenues. 

Send for Catalogue. 



160 



THK GBEEN I:IVKI; COUNTRY 




The Old 
National Bank 



•+ +•+ + + +•♦ + + + + 

+ .+ +..f + + +.+ + -;. + . 



+ + + + 



- • -♦■• + + - + 

*■'+ + 
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I Mill) STATES DEPOSITORY. 

SAMUEL BAYARD. Pres'l. 
JOHN GILBERT. VicePresl. 
HENRY REIS. Cashier. 



Capital Paid in 
Surplus Fund. 



S500.000. 
250.000. 



y- +• 
+ + 



+ + 



Evansville, Ind. 



E.C.JOHNSON, 



v 



DEALER IN 

Plate, Window and Ornamental Glass, 

Paints, Varnishes and Brushes, Painters' Supplies. 



10. 12. 14 and 16 MAIN STREET. 

^^EVANSVILLE. IND. 



Fine pninms. 
Snappy embossing, 
Color Olork 
All Kinds tnsrauing. 



EVANSVILLE, IND 



.-.. .:. X .L .. .'. A .!. ... .'. 



W • devote a portion "l our space to the cards showing :i few of tin- leading manu- 
facturing and business establishments of this city, «itli a view of vindicating the claim 
of Evansville, thai she is able to meet all the demands "I her tributary trade. An in- 
spection of these pages will disclose tin- fed thai the manufacturers ami merchants "i 
Evansville make no idle boas! when they assert their ability t" aupply all tin- wants "I 
the vast trade thai is com seeking her markets. 



FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVILLE. 



Ok mackepDisbet Companp 



161 




MAIN BUILDING OFTHE COMPANY. 

101 to 105 Upper First Street, corner Vine 



^ 



We Make Our Own 

PANTS, OVERALLS and 
SHIRTS. 

See them before buying. 



WHOLESALE 

^DRY 
A GOODS 

and NOTIONS. 







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PANTS FACTORY, 
104-106 Upper First Street, 

OPP. MAIN BUILDING. 



e^sos^=«i 



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If you Olant Cight j 

on Ci »n\.\ I Sh les aiul i hmest 
v\ orth in Read\ in w ear CMIi 
ing, invo>liuale lhe merils of 



Xlhc Renowned ft 
Digb Hrt Clothing 

made and sold at retail b> Strousc ,\ 

EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, 

ere can be found also all the besl 
ow n makes of I (ats 



v ip> :\\u\ 'Men - I ine 
I 'urnishing's a I popu 
lar prices, 

Visitors a Ivs a a s e\ 
tended a cordial ^el 
Lnm, 



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FROM BOWLING GREEN TO EVANSVIT,I,E. 




DoyouKnou) 



THAT IN 



EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, 



There is located the LARGEST AND FINEST ONE- <«Mp 
FLOOR PRINTING OFFICE IN j^ 
THE UNITED STATES? » » » » 



WThdtt*^ there is donc pRINTING oi aI1 kinds from the Finest HaIf - 

^^♦"^1 '» tone work to the Cheapest Card or Dodger. 

ZTTf^it^fit Blank Books are made to Order, and Binding of Books and 
^^♦l/w I w Magazines done in the latest style of the art. 

TfW\AHA F ' ne Editions of Newspapers and Pamphlets are turned out 

MM 1 1^ A*f a you can get Engraving, Half-tone and Zinc Etching, Steel 
^^* ' *'■' ■ '■' Plate work and Embossing done to your entire satisfaction, and 

ALL AT PRICES WHICH ATTRACT 

The Merchant, Manufacturer or Professional man anxious to 
keep up the appearance of his stationery, and yet to 

Saw ]Mone>> in 1898, 



CALL ON 

TELEPHONE No. 52 
OR WRITE TO . . . 



The Keller Printing & Publishing Co. 

216-218-220 Locust St. J- EVANSVILLE, IND. 



Grisp! Bright! Newsy! 

THE EVANSVILLE COURIER. 



>+-*— #-j^.— *#—- 



The Great Free Silver Daily of Indiana. 

The Organ of the Democratic Party of the State. 

The Best Paper in the State. 



THE WEEKLY COURIER, 

A Sixteen Page Paper Devoted to the Interests of the People of 
Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky. 

SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. 



COR'6E^OND SINGLE ^TREi 



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Ulbite p 
£autidrp 



EV/N5VILLE: —I MO 



CHAS. J. QCHEL & BRO. 
Proprietors. 



Cor. Second and 
.* Insk Sirccis. 



Largest and 
Most Compete 
Laundry in the city 





tU e o LD re ^abi b 



Louisville & Nashville 

.RAILROAD- 



THE 



Passenger 
Equipment 

comprises 

Luxurious 

Day Coaches 

and 

Pullman 
Buffet 

Sleepers. 




THE 



Freight 
Equipment 

is of 

Modern Pattern, 

especially adapted for the 

Safe Handling 



of 



Merchandise. 



PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS ARE 



RUN ON FAST SCHEDULES 



BETWEEN ALL 



POINTS NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST 




Y. van den BERG, Traffic Manager. 
C. B. COMPTON, Gen'l Freight Agt. C. P. ATMORE, Gen'l Pass. Agt 

LOUISVILLE, KY. 




SHORT LINE 



FROM 



EVANSVILLE 




TO 



MEMPHIS, JACKSON, VICKSBURG, 
NATCHEZ, NEW ORLEANS. 







DIRECT LINE 

TO 

ARKANSAS, TEXAS, MEXICO, 
AND CALIFORNIA. 



F. R. WHEELER, City Passenger Agent, 
200 MAIN ST.. EVANSVILLE. 

A. H. HANSON, Gen'l Pass. Agt. W. A KELLOND, Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agt. 

CHICAGO LOUISVILLE. 







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Louisville & Nashville 




.RAILROAD- 



THE 



Passenger 
Equipment 

comprises 

Luxurious 

Day Coaches 

and 

Pullman 
Buffet 

Sleepers. 




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THE 

Freight 
Equipment 

is of 

Modern Pattern, 

especially adapted for the 

Safe Handling 



of 



Merchandise. 



PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS ARE 

RUN ON FAST SCHEDULES 

BETWEEN ALL 

POINTS NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST 




Y. van den BERG, Traffic Manager. 
C. B. COMPTON, Gen'I Freight Agt. C P. ATMORE, Gen'I Pass. Agt. 

LOUISVILLE, KY. 





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SHORT LINE 







FROM 



EVANSVILLE 



TO 



MEMPHIS, JACKSON, VICKSBURG, 
NATCHEZ, NEW ORLEANS. 






CENTRAL 



MISSISSIPPI 




VALLEY 



ROUTE 






DIRECT LINE 



TO 



ARKANSAS, TEXAS, MEXICO, 
AND CALIFORNIA. 






F. R. WHEELER, City Passenger Agent, 

200 MAIN ST.. EVANSVILLE. 



A. H. HANSON, Gen'l Pass. Agt. W. A. KELLOND, Ass't Gen'I Pass. Agt. 

CHICAGO LOUISVILLE. <-:- 



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g| JAMES L. ORR. 

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BENJ. H. GRIFFITH. 



EDW. H. MANN. 



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Orr, Griffith & Co., 

| Iron, Steel, Wagon and Carriage Woodwork 

m 

i HORSE SHOES, HORSE NAILS, 

BLACKSMITH TOOLS, ETC. 

lO, 12> 14, euryd I6> Sycamore- Street, 

EVANSVILLE, IND. 



J I 'HIS popular Chill Cure is the 
favorite prescription of an old 
and reputable physician. 



A TRUE TONIC and a sure 
preventative of Typhoid and 
and all other dangerous types of 
malarial diseases. 



TT IS Exceedingly pleasant to 
take and absolutely safe. Gen- 
tle and persuasive, but powerful in 
its effect. 




W7ARRANTED HARM- 
LESS EVEN IN THE ^ 
HANDS OF CHILDREN. 



^h£^h£^K&^J3&.j)h£ 



W.M.AK1MC0. 



EVANSVILLE. IND. 



If pour €pcs are not in Perfect Condition 



^ 



-CONSULT 



\ 



DR. L. S. GUMBERTS, 

Eye Specialist. 

304 Second Street 






EVANSVILLE, IND 

EXAMINATION AND CONSULTATION FREE. 



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